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Part of the groundbreaking Kanata Classics list, with a new introduction, Starlight is the follow-up to Richard Wagamese's Medicine Walk. Richard Wagamese's final novel is a rapturous and profoundly moving story of love, compassion, mercy, and the consolations to be found in the natural world.
Frank Starlight has long settled into a quiet life working his remote farm, occasionally venturing into the unbroken country around his property to photograph the wild animals who thrive there. His contemplative existence comes to an abrupt end with the arrival of Emmy, a woman on the run who has committed a desperate act so she and her child can escape a life of abuse. Frank takes in Emmy and her daughter to help them get back on their feet, and, gradually, this accidental family grows into a real one. But Emmy's violent ex-boyfriend isn't content to just let her go. He wants revenge and is determined to hunt her down.
An instant national bestseller, Starlight was unfinished at the time of Richard Wagamese's death, yet every page radiates with his masterful storytelling, intense humanism, and insights that are as hard-earned as they are beautiful. With astonishing scenes set in the rugged backcountry of the B.C. Interior, and characters whose scars cut deep even as their journey toward healing and forgiveness lifts us, Starlight is a magnificent last gift to readers from a writer who believed in the power of stories to save us. Praise for Richard Wagamese and Starlight:
"Starlight feels fully formed. . . . The prose is both musical and hard-edged, bending to match the rhythms of life in the wild, on the farm and in the desolate skid-row bards of distant cities. A captivating and ultimately uplifting read, and the last we'll enjoy from on of our best writers." -Toronto Star
"[A] triumph. . . . This is an important story to know and to experience, from an artist cut down at the height of his powers." -Winnipeg Free Press
"A wonderful and moving story, both tragic and hopeful." -Regina Leader-Post
"What Wagamese does with this novel is set stunning scenes and deliver a moving story about the power of family even if it is an accidental one." -Vancouver Sun
"Richard Wagamese divined the secrets of human scars and knew that broken people are the strangest and most extraordinary people of all." -Louise Erdrich, New York Times
"Wagamese manages the nuances of betrayal and redemption with uncommon artistry. Medicine Walk is a breathtaking novel of sorrow, hope and polished steel." -Thomas King, author of The Inconvenient Indian.
"He is such a master of empathy-of delineating the experience of time passing, of lessons being learned, of tragedies being endured-that what [his characters discover] becomes something the reader learns, as well, shocking and alien, valuable and true." -Jane Smiley, Globe and Mail
"Richard Wagamese's writing is sweet medicine for the soul." -Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed
RICHARD WAGAMESE, an Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario, was one of Canada's foremost writers. His acclaimed, bestselling novels included Keeper 'n Me; Indian Horse, which was a Canada Reads finalist, winner of the inaugural Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature, and made into a feature film; and Medicine Walk. He was also the author of acclaimed memoirs, including For Joshua; One Native Life; and One Story, One Song, which won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature; as well as a collection of personal reflections, Embers, which received the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award. He won numerous awards and recognition for his writing, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media and Communications, the Molson Prize for the Arts, the Canada Reads People's Choice Award, and the Writers' Trust of Canada's Matt Cohen Award. Wagamese died at the age of 61, on March 10, 2017, in Kamloops, B.C. Starlight is his
Frank Starlight has long settled into a quiet life working his remote farm, occasionally venturing into the unbroken country around his property to photograph the wild animals who thrive there. His contemplative existence comes to an abrupt end with the arrival of Emmy, a woman on the run who has committed a desperate act so she and her child can escape a life of abuse. Frank takes in Emmy and her daughter to help them get back on their feet, and, gradually, this accidental family grows into a real one. But Emmy's violent ex-boyfriend isn't content to just let her go. He wants revenge and is determined to hunt her down.
An instant national bestseller, Starlight was unfinished at the time of Richard Wagamese's death, yet every page radiates with his masterful storytelling, intense humanism, and insights that are as hard-earned as they are beautiful. With astonishing scenes set in the rugged backcountry of the B.C. Interior, and characters whose scars cut deep even as their journey toward healing and forgiveness lifts us, Starlight is a magnificent last gift to readers from a writer who believed in the power of stories to save us. Praise for Richard Wagamese and Starlight:
"Starlight feels fully formed. . . . The prose is both musical and hard-edged, bending to match the rhythms of life in the wild, on the farm and in the desolate skid-row bards of distant cities. A captivating and ultimately uplifting read, and the last we'll enjoy from on of our best writers." -Toronto Star
"[A] triumph. . . . This is an important story to know and to experience, from an artist cut down at the height of his powers." -Winnipeg Free Press
"A wonderful and moving story, both tragic and hopeful." -Regina Leader-Post
"What Wagamese does with this novel is set stunning scenes and deliver a moving story about the power of family even if it is an accidental one." -Vancouver Sun
"Richard Wagamese divined the secrets of human scars and knew that broken people are the strangest and most extraordinary people of all." -Louise Erdrich, New York Times
"Wagamese manages the nuances of betrayal and redemption with uncommon artistry. Medicine Walk is a breathtaking novel of sorrow, hope and polished steel." -Thomas King, author of The Inconvenient Indian.
"He is such a master of empathy-of delineating the experience of time passing, of lessons being learned, of tragedies being endured-that what [his characters discover] becomes something the reader learns, as well, shocking and alien, valuable and true." -Jane Smiley, Globe and Mail
"Richard Wagamese's writing is sweet medicine for the soul." -Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed
RICHARD WAGAMESE, an Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario, was one of Canada's foremost writers. His acclaimed, bestselling novels included Keeper 'n Me; Indian Horse, which was a Canada Reads finalist, winner of the inaugural Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature, and made into a feature film; and Medicine Walk. He was also the author of acclaimed memoirs, including For Joshua; One Native Life; and One Story, One Song, which won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature; as well as a collection of personal reflections, Embers, which received the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award. He won numerous awards and recognition for his writing, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media and Communications, the Molson Prize for the Arts, the Canada Reads People's Choice Award, and the Writers' Trust of Canada's Matt Cohen Award. Wagamese died at the age of 61, on March 10, 2017, in Kamloops, B.C. Starlight is his