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Drowning in Darkness : A Novel
by Oliva, Peter
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0920953514
- ISBN 13
- 9780920953518
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Dunvegan, ON, Canada: Cormorant Books, 1993. Second Printing. Pictorial Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 179 p.; VG+, very nice copy. The author's great-grandfather, grandfater and father were all coalminers in Alberta's Crowsnest Pass and he draws on this for his novel. "Set in a coal-mining community in southern Alberta's Crowsnest Pass, this novel evokes elements of the fantastic which exist in the land itself, particularly in the gassy, bituminous coal-mines found in the Pass. While one might expect a mine's roof to fall, it is in fact the floor that continually heaves up under a miner's boots, The methane that seeps from the rock and circulates throughout a coal-mine creates this magic, able to soften coal or induce sleep and incite dreams. The mine's gas-marbled darkness and a story about a woman from southern Italy longing to escape the Pass bring about a fantastic/mythological suggestion that washes the reader of her tale right back to its beginning." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reading Rat (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RRAB652
- Title
- Drowning in Darkness : A Novel
- Author
- Oliva, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0920953514
- ISBN 13
- 9780920953518
- Publisher
- Cormorant Books
- Place of Publication
- Dunvegan, ON, Canada
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- FICTION GENERAL Canadian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadiana;
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About the Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Reading Rat
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- Jacket
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