Description
Champion bull-rider Joe Willie Wolfchild is poised to win the most sought after title in rodeo when a devastating accident at the National Finals leaves his body and ambitions in tatters. Unsure of what else to do, he retires to the panoramic family ranch, Wolfcreek, to mend.
Claire Hartley and her fifteen-year-old son Aiden have nearly been torn apart by abusive boyfriends and an unjust world when a friend sends them to the Wolfchild ranch. Thrown together by terrible circumstance, it appears Aiden and Joe Willie have more in common than their childhoods would suggest. After a rocky start, they strike a deal: Aiden will help Joe Willie repair his '34 Ford V8 pickup if the former champion teaches the city kid how to ride a bull. As Wagamese reveals their story, he rewrites the history of the American cowboy.
In taut, muscular prose, Wagamese explores how independence, self-determination, and a return to cultural tradition can heal body, mind, and community.
Author: Richard Wagamese
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 05/10/2016
Pages: 418
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781571311177
ISBN10: 1571311173
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Indigenous
- Fiction | Westerns | General
About the Author
Richard Wagamese is one of Canada's foremost writers, and one of the leading Native writers in North America. The author of eight previous novels, including the acclaimed Medicine Walk, which has garnered high critical praise, Wagamese has been honored with the 2012 National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media & Communications and the Molson Prize for the Arts in 2013. He lives in Kamloops, British Columbia.