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100	1		_aWiebe, Rudy Henry, _d1934- _921845
245	1	0	_aOf this earth : _ba Mennonite boyhood in the boreal forest / _cRudy Wiebe
250			_a1st ed
260			_aToronto : _bAlfred A. Knopf Canada, _cc2006
300			_aix, 391 p. : _bill., maps, ports. ; _c22 cm
520			_aIn Of This Earth, Rudy Wiebe gives vivid life again to the vanished world of Speedwell, Saskatchewan, an isolated, poplar-forested, mostly Mennonite community – and Rudy’s first home. Too young to do heavy work, Rudy witnessed a way of life that was soon to disappear. And we experience with him the hard labour of clearing the stony, silty bushland; the digging out of precious wells one bucket of dirt at a time; sorrow at the death of a beloved sister; the disorienting searches for grazing cattle in the vast wilderness sloughs and the sweet discovery of the power of reading. Rare personal photographs (reproduced throughout the book) and the fragile memories of those who are left give shape to the story of Mennonite immigrants building a life in Canada, the growth and decline of the small Speedwell community, the sway of religion, and a young boy’s growing love of the extreme beauty of the aspen forests – as well as how all these elements came to inform his destiny as a writer. A hymn to a lost place and a distant time, Of This Earth follows the best of memoirs in the tradition of Sharon Butala’s The Perfection of the Morning and W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. It is an evocation of the Canadian west that only a writer of Rudy Wiebe’s powers could summon.
600	1	0	_aWiebe, Rudy Henry, 1934- _xChildhood and youth _921846
600	1	6	_aWiebe, Rudy, 1934- _xEnfance et jeuness _921847
650		0	_aMennonites _zSaskatchewan _zSpeedwell _vBiography _921848
650		0	_aFarm life _zSaskatchewan _zSpeedwell _921849
650		0	_aAuthors, Canadian _y20th century _vBiography _920343
650		6	_aMennonites _zSaskatchewan _zSpeedwell _vBiographies _921850
650		6	_aVie ̉la ferme _zSaskatchewan _zSpeedwell _921851
650		6	_aÉcrivains canadiens-anglais _y20e sic̈le _vBiographies _921852
651		6	_aSpeedwell (Sask.) _vBiographies _921853
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