Defying Gravity
- ISBN-10
- 1550501593
- ISBN-13
- 9781550501599
- Series
- Defying Gravity
- Category
- Jasper (Alta.)
- Pages
- 361
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Coteau Books
- Author
- Jennifer Wynne Webber
Description
Finalist, Award for Publishing/Book of the Year/First Book Award; Saskatchewan Book Awards. Miranda, a thirty-something TV producer gets abandoned by her fiance on a mountaintop in Jasper. Rather than crawling back to Edmonton to pick up the pieces one more time, she drives to Vancouver with a mysterious young spiritual guide she meets, and comes back to the mountaintop with a new view of her life. Interwoven with this personal journey is an encounter with a disoriented young Rwandan refugee with a horrific story of his experience. As well, her travelling companion proposes a convergence of meanings between his native East Indian roots and his adopted Catholic faith. Jennifer Webber is a bright witty new voice. Her talent, demonstrated in Defying Gravity, should bring pleasure to her readers for a long time to come.-Sharon Butala
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- 2018-10-01
- 512 pages
- Ebook
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- 2018-03-27
- 218 pages
- Ebook
- Ignatius Press
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- 2018-03-21
- 216 pages
- Paperback
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