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Fiction Literary

The Color Of Lightning Canadian

by (author) Paulette Jiles

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Initial publish date
Mar 2009
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554683178
    Publish Date
    Mar 2009
    List Price
    $22.95

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Description

At the end of the Civil War, Britt Johnson, a freed black man, travels with his family from Kentucky to start a new life in Texas. But this wild country holds dangers of its own. When his wife and children are captured during an Indian raid, Britt vows to bring them home or die trying. But his determination and courage quickly land him in the thick of a battle he wants no part of—the struggle between the U.S. government and the Kiowa and Comanche tribes, whose land, freedom and culture are threatened.

    Paulette Jiles, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award, the Governor General’s Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, returns with a story that is grounded in history but that echoes the classic myths. Powerful and nuanced, by turns as beautiful and unforgiving as the frontier itself, The Colour of Lightning is an ambitious and striking novel that confirms Jiles as one of Canada’s finest writers.

 

 

About the author

PAULETE JILES was born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks and moved to Canada in 1969. She spent eight years as a journalist for the CBC in northern Ontario. She is the bestselling author of Enemy Women, a New York Times Notable Book, and winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Women Writing the West’s Willa Literary Award. She has also won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Paulette Jiles lives in the Texas hill country near San Antonio.

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Editorial Reviews

?Jiles evokes the past here, but there is no sepia tinge to her fiction. It is as alive and immediate as the red dust that seeps into every crack and crevice.?

(The Globe and Mail on Stormy Weather)

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