Red Headed Woman With The Black Black Heart
- Publisher
- Turnstone Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1997
- Category
- Literary, Historical
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888012166
- Publish Date
- Jan 1997
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Historical Fiction, Honourable Mention (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards).
This novel tells how our heroine comes to a northern Manitoba mining town during the 1934 labour dispute and changes the town forever.
". . . filled with energy and exuberance."
-Border Crossings
About the author
Birk Sproxton writes, edits and teaches from the heart of the prairie greenbelt in Alberta. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He previous books include The Hockey Fan Came Riding, Headframe and The Red-Headed Woman with the Black Black Heart, which received the Manitoba Historical Society's award for historical fiction. His editorial hand can be found in Trace: Prairies Writers on Writing and the special Winnipeg in Fiction edition of Prairie Fire magazine.