Book
Treading water
Record details
- ISBN: 1552785262 :
- ISBN: 9781552785980 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781552785263 :
- ISBN: 9781552785980
- ISBN: 1552785262
- ISBN: 9781552785263
- ISBN: 155278598X (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
302 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Publisher: Toronto : McArthur & Co., 2005.
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| Subject: | Small town life -- Fiction Nineteen hundred, A.D -- Fiction Community life -- Canada -- Fiction British Columbia -- Fiction Ontario -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. |
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Available copies
- 19 of 22 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 22 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creston Public Library | FIC DEG (Text) | 35140001200461 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
In the novel TREADING WATER, the voices of the residents of Bear Creek surface. Gus Sanders, a young trapper, arrives to seek his fortune on 1904 but loses his heart, and then his life; Jake Schroeder must choose between his desire to join up and his Mennonite pacifist roots; Isobel Grey, suffragette, leaves the movement in Winnipeg and brings her politics with her; Dutch war bride Aliesje Milner, six months pregnant, waits at the train station for a husband whose face she can no longer remember; and young Paul Doyle’s summer job demolishing houses to make way for the new hydroelectric dam teaches him more than he bargained for. The indomitable personality of Ursula Hartmann, first child born in Bear Creek and among the last to leave, threads through the novel as they trace a community from its innocent beginnings until the day the waters rise.
