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Fiction Literary

The Horsemans Graves

by (author) Jacqueline Baker

Publisher
HarperCollins
Initial publish date
Apr 2008
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780002008938
    Publish Date
    Apr 2008
    List Price
    $23.99

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Description

A stunning novel of passion, sin and redemption, The Horseman’s Graves returns to the harsh locale of Sand Hills on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border, the location for Jacqueline Baker’s multiple award-winning short story collection A Hard Witching and Other Stories. Speaking through the narrative voice of a see-all neighbour and filling her story with memorable characters—a blustering, pious priest; a mysterious “witch” faith healer; the town busybody; a fearful young farm wife who is virtually worked to death—Baker unfolds a tale of a small German farming community where the failures of one generation are passed on to the next.

About the author

Jacqueline Baker is the author of A Hard Witching And Other Stories, which won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the City of Edmonton Book Prize and the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Raised in southwestern Saskatchewan, Jacqueline Baker has been the writer-in-residence at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton and teaches at the Banff Centre for the Arts. She lives with her husband and two daughters in British Columbia.

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Awards

  • OLA Evergreen Award

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