Author : Sharon MacFarlane
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9780888821928
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (219 download)
Book Synopsis Driving Off the Map by : Sharon MacFarlane
Download or read book Driving Off the Map written by Sharon MacFarlane and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bartender who discovers magic on a winter night, a pair of losers taking a baking class, and a middle-aged woman who goes on a wild limo ride with the ghost of John Diefenbaker These are a few of the amazing array of characters who live in, or near, Sharon MacFarlanes fictional village of Palliser, a community struggling to survive in an age of rural depopulation. Whether its a terrifying drive on a frozen river ("Ice Road") or a cancelled trip ("We Didn't Go to Len's This Summer"), each of the stories in Driving off the Map takes us, with a character, on a journey toward epiphany. MacFarlane understands these people, and she tells their secrets with humour and compassion. Her prose is as unadorned, yet as teeming with hidden life and beauty, as the prairie she evokes.