These eleven stories continue the adventures of Silas Ermineskin and his sidekick Frank Fencepost, as Kinsella returns to the Cree Indian reserve in Hobbema, Alberta, where his cast of zany characters, last seen in "The Fencepost Chronicles" and "The Miss Hobbema Pageant," is at its wry best. Here Frank Fencepost, true to form as a fast-talking con artist, outwits the Alberta Supreme Court in a hilarious cattle-insemination case in "Bull." In the title story he becomes an evangelizing Robin Hood, turning the government ...
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These eleven stories continue the adventures of Silas Ermineskin and his sidekick Frank Fencepost, as Kinsella returns to the Cree Indian reserve in Hobbema, Alberta, where his cast of zany characters, last seen in "The Fencepost Chronicles" and "The Miss Hobbema Pageant," is at its wry best. Here Frank Fencepost, true to form as a fast-talking con artist, outwits the Alberta Supreme Court in a hilarious cattle-insemination case in "Bull." In the title story he becomes an evangelizing Robin Hood, turning the government-sponsored K-U-G-H radio show into a scheme to use listeners' donations to fund listeners' wishes (and incidentally line his pockets), and in "Miracle on Manitoba Street" he visits a Montana reserve where he carves a picture of the Virgin Mary on a derelict Frigidaire and convinces the local medicine woman it's a miracle--one worthy of an admission charge. Not all the stories are humorous: "Dream Catcher" grapples with sexual violence when Silas's twelve-year-old sister is assaulted and Mad Etta, the community's four-hundred-pound medicine woman, provides a nightmare "cure" for the would-be rapist; "Ice Man" depicts gender discrimination, as Jason Twelve Trees fights to participate in a cooking competition despite his father's wish for him to become a mechanic; and "The Rain Birds" shows the consequences of the government's computer-driven corporate farms riding roughshod over the human and natural environment in western Canada.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. I5-A collection of eleven stories continue the adventures of Silas Ermineskin and his sidekick Frank DJ is mylar protected. Fencepost as Kinsella returns to the Cree Indian reserve in Hobbema, Alberta, where his cast of zany characters, last seen in "The Fencepost Chronicles" and "The Hobbema Pageant", ist at its wry best. "Clever, entertaining stories, often tender, skillfully written...Edmonton Journal. Published the first time in the United States by SMU.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0870743988. Signed by Author; Very short closed tear top fore edge, lightly creased top back edge; Signed by the author on the title page. A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector.; 8.30 X 5.54 X 0.81 inches; 187 pages; "These eleven stories continue the adventures of Silas Ermineskin and his sidekick Frank Fencepost, as Kinsella returns tho the Cree Indian reserve in Hobbema, Alberta, where his cast of zany characters, last seen in the Fencepost Chronicles and The Miss Hobbema Pageant, is at its best." (jacket blurb)
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