**Deftly written and utterly addictive, this Western literary horror debut will find a home with fans of authors like Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and Anne Rice.** _One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster._ Haunted by his past, Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texa
In the valleys of the noble beyond: in search of the Sasquatch
โ Scribed by Zada, John
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic; Atlantic Monthly Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 447 KB
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.,First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- British Columbia--Great Bear Rainforest., Canada., Great Bear Rainforest (B.C.),Great Bear Rainfores
- ISBN
- 080214716X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
On the central coast of British Columbia, the Great Bear Rainforest is part of the largest temperate rainforest in the world; for centuries people have reported encounters with the Sasquatch. Driven by his own childhood obsession with the creatures, Zada decides to seek out the inhabitants of this rugged and far-flung coast, where nearly everyone has a story to tell. With each tale he discovers that his search for the Sasquatch cuts across questions of human perception, scientific inquiry, indigenous traditions, the environment, and the power and desire of the human imagination to believe in-- reject-- something largely unseen. -- adapted from jacket;The beckoning -- The strangest thing -- Sasqualogy -- Bella Bella (Waglisla) -- Koeye (Kvai -- Wuikinuxv -- Ocean Falls (Laiq) -- Bella Coola (Q'umk'uts') -- The reckoning -- Epilogue: The noise -- Postscript.
โฆ Subjects
Canada
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