Fresh, Whimsical Novel Gets Hooks Into Readers
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It's always interesting to speculate how a storytelling gift like [Nicolas Dickner]'s was stimulated. The basics are that he studied visual arts and literature, and travelled widely through Europe and Latin America before settling in Montreal.
[Noah Riel] is the son of Sarah Riel, a woman who's left her reserve near Portage la Prairie. A seasonal worker, she and Noah roam the Prairies in an "ocean liner," a 1966 Bonneville. Family consists of a few photos of their Chipewyan ancestors. As an example of Dickner's fresh perspective, home-schooled Noah, when face with a map of the Caribbean, sees it as a "negative of the map of Saskatchewan."See the full content of this document
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Fresh, Whimsical Novel Gets Hooks Into Readers
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By Nicolas Dickner, translated by Lazer Lederhendler Knopf, 290 pages, $30Reviewed by Ursula Fuchs SHEHERAZADE herself could not have devised a more intriguing tale than this f...See the full content of this document
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