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Jacob's Prayer: Loss & Resilience at Alkali Lake

Jacob's Prayer: Loss & Resilience at Alkali Lake Paperback / softback - 2009

by Lorne Dufour

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A haunting and poetic story of a community's suffering, loss, and eventual healing, "Jacob's Prayer" centers around one tragic Halloween evening in 1975, when two men lose their lives and another is saved by a friend who chooses not to be destroyed by his own tragedy and devastating loss.

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  • Title Jacob's Prayer: Loss & Resilience at Alkali Lake
  • Author Lorne Dufour
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Caitlin Press, Halfmoon Bay
  • Date 2009
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents, Unabridged
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781894759335
  • ISBN 9781894759335 / 1894759338
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.4 x 0.4 in (20.07 x 13.72 x 1.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Shuswap Indians - History, Shuswap Indians - Alcohol use
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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About the author

Lorne Dufour has worked as a teacher, a counsellor, a logger, a travelling showman and a poet. In 1985 he played the alcoholic priest in the film 'The Honor of All', the story of the Alkali Lake Reserve's battle with alcoholism. Dufour has published two books of poetry, 'Spit on Wishes' and 'Starting From Promise', which won the Poets' Corner Award from Broken Jaw Press in 2000. He is a handlogger and lives off the grid in McLeese Lake, BC, with his wife Diana.