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  • 2014

Medicine walk

Richard Wagamese

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Set in the dramatic landscape of the BC Interior, 16 year-old Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon, a man he barely knows. The rare moments they have shared trouble Frank, but, he answers the call, a son's duty to a father. He finds Eldon dying of liver failure after years of heavy drinking. Eldon asks his son to take him into the mountains, so he may be buried in the traditional Ojibway manner.

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Title Statement Medicine walk / Richard Wagamese.
Author Wagamese, Richard
Publication Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, c2014.
Extent of Item 245 p.
ISBN 077108918X
9780771089183
Other Number 2494882
Summary Set in the dramatic landscape of the BC Interior, 16 year-old Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon, a man he barely knows. The rare moments they have shared trouble Frank, but, he answers the call, a son's duty to a father. He finds Eldon dying of liver failure after years of heavy drinking. Eldon asks his son to take him into the mountains, so he may be buried in the traditional Ojibway manner.
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By Topic Fathers and sons--Fiction
Alcoholics--Fiction
Ojibwe--Fiction
Redemption--Fiction
By Location British Columbia--Fiction
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