Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Scotch River : a novel / Linda Little.

by Little, Linda, 1959-

View full image

Viking Canada, c2006.

Recovered memory -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.

Dartmouth Book Award.

Nova Scotia -- Fiction.

280 p. ; 22 cm.

"Cass Hutt, bull rider, has nothing left to lose. The bulls should have killed him by now. Instead, it is his rodeo partner who has died, severing Cass's only ties to his world. With nothing and no one to hold him, Cass is lead back East by the sudden arrival of a mysterious land deed, back to Scotch River, Nova Scotia, and the sketchy boyhood memories he left to die there. In Scotch River, Cass finds himself pulled powerfully towards the lonely, eccentric, complicated people who lay claim to him. As the mystery of the deed unfolds, fragments of disturbing memories surface, and a slowly remembered past threatens to tow him under. Always he feels the whispered warning in his bones: “Be careful what you wish for.” In this dark and beautifully written novel, acclaimed novelist Linda Little introduces an unforgettable cast of characters bound together by the mysteries of blood and the burdens of memory. As it unveils its secrets, Scotch River deftly weaves a profoundly moving, deeply insightful story of family love in all its ardor and the heartbreaking, indelible acts performed in its name."--Inside jacket.

Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, 2007.

Winner of the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, 2007.

Psychological fiction.

Canadian fiction.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal