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Fiction Literary

Treading Water

by (author) Anne Degrace

Publisher
Cormorant Books
Initial publish date
Aug 2013
Category
Literary, Historical
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552785980
    Publish Date
    Aug 2006
    List Price
    $14.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781552785263
    Publish Date
    Sep 2005
    List Price
    $29.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781770863354
    Publish Date
    Aug 2013
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

In the novel Treading Water, the voices of the residents of Bear Creek surface. Gus Sanders, a young trapper, arrives to seek his fortune on 1904 but loses his heart, and then his life; Jake Schroeder must choose between his desire to join up and his Mennonite pacifist roots; Isobel Grey, suffragette, leaves the movement in Winnipeg and brings her politics with her; Dutch war bride Aliesje Milner, six months pregnant, waits at the train station for a husband whose face she can no longer remember; and young Paul Doyle's summer job demolishing houses to make way for the new hydroelectric dam teaches him more than he bargained for. The indomitable personality of Ursula Hartmann, first child born in Bear Creek and among the last to leave, threads through the novel as they trace a community from its innocent beginnings until the day the waters rise.

About the author

Anne DeGrace is the author of four novels: Treading Water, Wind Tails, Sounding Line, and Flying with Amelia. Her resume includes stints as an illustrator, journalist, bookseller, publisher, and librarian. DeGrace lives with her partner, three dogs, and a dozen chickens near Nelson, British Columbia, where she writes in a hillside studio with a view of a lake, mountains, and the occasional elk.

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Editorial Reviews

"DeGrace's characters are compelling - funny, smart, and true to life in their emotions and dialogue."

Quill and Quire