![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His conscience and his soul are a spiritual wasteland that Will cannot easily escape. The alcoholic hunter recounts his painful, guilt-riddled past as he recovers from a violent attack. The news made the tour a lot easier for me to do."īoyden's tale centres on Will Bird, a Cree hunter and pilot with blood on his hands, and his young niece Annie who is searching for her missing sister and New York model Suzanne. The follow-up to his bestselling first novel, "Three Day Road," Boyden says, "I found out about the nomination the day I was starting on a 55-day book tour. That sense of embracing the past is a core theme in "Through Black Spruce" (Penguin), the book that landed Boyden, a teacher of Canadian literature and creative writing at the University of New Orleans, on the 2008 Giller Prize shortlist. "But those books, plus my dad's stories about World War II, definitely instilled a love of history in me." "I don't know why I was so captivated," Boyden told CTV.ca. in the 1970s, Joseph Boyden was an average kid - except for the fact that he had devoured the Encyclopedia Britannica, volume by volume, by the time he was eight. ![]()
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