Wild Geese

✍ Scribed by Martha Ostenso

• Book ID: 111799726
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 203 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781551992853

✦ Synopsis

Wild Geese caused a sensation when it was first published in 1925. To a generation bred on sentimental escapist literature, the idea of a heroine as wild as a bronco and as fiery as a tigress was nothing short of revolutionary. In the character of Judith Gare, Martha Ostenso had painted so naked and uncompromising a portrait of human passion and need that it crossed all bounds of propriety and convention.
Today, Wild Geese is widely recognized as a milestone in the development of modern realist fiction. Set on the windswept prairies of northern Manitoba, it is a story of love and tyranny, of destruction and survival, told with vigour and lyric beauty. It is also a poignant evocation of loneliness, which, like the call of the wild geese, is beyond human warmth, beyond tragedy, “an endless quest.”