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The Nettle Spinner

Af: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer Engelsk Paperback

The Nettle Spinner

Af: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer Engelsk Paperback
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In her early twenties, Alma met a tree-planter and fell in love — not with the man but with his strangely romantic work. Now, after several seasons of planting trees out west, the tough-minded hero of Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer''s visceral first novel has come home to northern Ontario to help reforest the ravaged landscape with a gang of filthy ex-hippies and idealistic students. Baking by day in the hot sun and tormented by mosquitoes and blackflies, Alma and her fellow planters relieve their backbreaking toil at night with sex, dope, and alcohol. But her brief passionate affair with a charismatic newcomer named Willem raises the ire of Karl (whose amorous attentions she has deflected in the past), and he viciously rapes her. Pregnant and alone, Alma flees to an abandoned mining camp where she and Willem once made love. There, with the help of the camp''s single weird inhabitant, she constructs for herself and her unwanted baby an increasingly ominous new life.

Weaving together Alma''s story with an ancient Flemish folktale about a peasant girl''s magical hold over a lustful count, Kuitenbrouwer links the power of narrative with the passion for self-realization. The Nettle Spinner is a gritty, sensuous debut that portrays sex with startling clarity and violence with peculiar tenderness.

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In her early twenties, Alma met a tree-planter and fell in love — not with the man but with his strangely romantic work. Now, after several seasons of planting trees out west, the tough-minded hero of Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer''s visceral first novel has come home to northern Ontario to help reforest the ravaged landscape with a gang of filthy ex-hippies and idealistic students. Baking by day in the hot sun and tormented by mosquitoes and blackflies, Alma and her fellow planters relieve their backbreaking toil at night with sex, dope, and alcohol. But her brief passionate affair with a charismatic newcomer named Willem raises the ire of Karl (whose amorous attentions she has deflected in the past), and he viciously rapes her. Pregnant and alone, Alma flees to an abandoned mining camp where she and Willem once made love. There, with the help of the camp''s single weird inhabitant, she constructs for herself and her unwanted baby an increasingly ominous new life.

Weaving together Alma''s story with an ancient Flemish folktale about a peasant girl''s magical hold over a lustful count, Kuitenbrouwer links the power of narrative with the passion for self-realization. The Nettle Spinner is a gritty, sensuous debut that portrays sex with startling clarity and violence with peculiar tenderness.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 205
ISBN-13: 9780864924223
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0864924224
Kategori: Moderne Samtidslitteratur
Udg. Dato: 11 apr 2005
Længde: 12mm
Bredde: 140mm
Højde: 216mm
Forlag: Goose Lane Editions
Oplagsdato: 11 apr 2005
Forfatter(e): Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Forfatter(e) Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur

ISBN-13 9780864924223

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 205

Udgave

Længde 12mm

Bredde 140mm

Højde 216mm

Udg. Dato 11 apr 2005

Oplagsdato 11 apr 2005

Forlag Goose Lane Editions

Kategori sammenhænge