The poetic record of the last year in the life of a fictional salmon cannery on the northern coast of British Columbia: a remarkable, multi-voiced document that, in text and photographs, tells the poignant tale, through Turner's anthropological insight, of an industry and a culture under siege.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0889782350
ISBN13:9780889782358
Release Date:July 2002
Publisher:Arsenal Pulp Press
Length:132 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"
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Condition: New
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This is a wonderful collection of poetry. Fragmentary, and highly charged, it is a fictional account of the last days of a Salmon Cannery along the Sheenan River in British Columbia. The narrative takes a number of forms; lists, declarattions, snippets of gossip; but slowly, in their own voices, the miriad characters of the "Company Town" step forward, and have their say. The writing is wry and razor-sharp. A wonderful book, a wonderful read, and a fantastic document of the working class experience -- Even if it is fictional!
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