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Since its first publication in 1985, The Grey Islands has become a classic of Canadian wilderness writing to set beside the works of Thoreau, Annie Dillard and Aldo Leopold. Using a broad range of forms and styles â lyric, anecdote, field notes, documents and pseudo-documents, ghost story, tall tale â Steffler relates the story of one manâs pilgrimage to a remote island of Newfoundlandâs northern peninsula. Often comic, and always deeply passionate and sensuous, The Grey Islands tells of the sharpening of perceptions whetted by solitude, wind and rock, and of the pilgrimâs people â living and dead â who have striven to exist under its harsh regime. As in his other books, like That Night We Were Ravenous or his acclaimed novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright, Stefflerâs writing delivers the bite of raw experience and embraces existence at the edge in all its terror and beauty. |
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