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Who by fire

Summary: "The heart of this moving story belongs to Tom Ryder - a man whose expectations for the future and assumptions about his own strength and power are persistently and devastatingly undermined by the arrival of a sour gas plant on the border of his southern Alberta farm in the early 1960s. The emissions from the plant poison not only his livestock but the relationships he has with his family, most especially with his wife, Ella."

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  • ISBN: 9780385668798 (hc.) :
  • Physical Description: print
    359 pages ; 24cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : Doubleday Canada, p2014.
Subject: Gas industry -- Environmental aspects -- Alberta -- Fiction
Pollutants -- Environmental aspects -- Fiction
Farmers -- Alberta -- Fiction
Pollution -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Farmers' spouses -- Fiction
Alberta -- Fiction
Genre: Canadian fiction.

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  • 9 of 9 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.

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Acquisition Type: New
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Summary: "The heart of this moving story belongs to Tom Ryder - a man whose expectations for the future and assumptions about his own strength and power are persistently and devastatingly undermined by the arrival of a sour gas plant on the border of his southern Alberta farm in the early 1960s. The emissions from the plant poison not only his livestock but the relationships he has with his family, most especially with his wife, Ella."
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