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COOL WATER
Winner of the 2010 Governor General's Award for fiction
With over 50,000 copies sold in Canada, this award-winning, long-running bestseller is perfect for fans of Olive Kitteridg
With over 50,000 copies sold in Canada, this award-winning, long-running bestseller is perfect for fans of Olive Kitteridg
Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink-of-an-eye kind of town -- the welcome sign announces a population of 1,011 people -- and it's easy to imagine that nothing happens on its hot and dusty streets. Situated on the edge of the Little Snake sand hills, Juliet and its inhabitants are caught in limbo between a century -- old promise of prosperity and whatever lies ahead.
But the heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people: the foundling who now owns the farm his adoptive family left him; the pregnant teenager and her mother, planning a fairytale wedding; a shy couple, well beyond middle age, struggling with the recognition of their feelings for one another; a camel named Antoinette; and the ubiquitous wind and sand that forever shift the landscape. Their stories bring the prairie desert and the town of Juliet to vivid and enduring life.
This wonderfully entertaining, witty and deeply felt novel brims with forgiveness as its flawed people stumble towards the future.
DIANNE WARREN is the author of the Governor General's Awardwinning novel Cool Water, as well as the novel Liberty Street, three books of short fiction and three plays. Serpent in the Night Sky was short-listed for a Governor General's Award for Drama in 1992. In 2004, she won the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career. Warren lives with her husband, a visual artist, in Regina, Saskatchewan.
But the heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people: the foundling who now owns the farm his adoptive family left him; the pregnant teenager and her mother, planning a fairytale wedding; a shy couple, well beyond middle age, struggling with the recognition of their feelings for one another; a camel named Antoinette; and the ubiquitous wind and sand that forever shift the landscape. Their stories bring the prairie desert and the town of Juliet to vivid and enduring life.
This wonderfully entertaining, witty and deeply felt novel brims with forgiveness as its flawed people stumble towards the future.
DIANNE WARREN is the author of the Governor General's Awardwinning novel Cool Water, as well as the novel Liberty Street, three books of short fiction and three plays. Serpent in the Night Sky was short-listed for a Governor General's Award for Drama in 1992. In 2004, she won the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career. Warren lives with her husband, a visual artist, in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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Published 2010-11-01 by HarperCollins Canada |