Places Far from Ellesmere

By Aritha van Herk

Book Overview

Internationally acclaimed novelist Aritha van Herk takes geography and fiction and creates of them a geografictione a fiction mapped on the lines of geography, a geography following the course of fiction. A new reading of Tolstoy's tragic heroine Anna Karenina and a sojourn at Ellesmere Island come together, and the North becomes an incomparably beautiful place, a living, unread, feminine landscape.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889950601
• ISBN13: 9780889950603
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Red Deer Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"