A minor chorus : a novel / Billy-Ray Belcourt.
An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness. What ensues is a series of conversations, connections, and disconnections that reveals the texture of life in a town literature has left unexplored, where the friction between possibility and constraint provides an insistent background score. Whether he's meeting with an auntie distraught over the imprisonment of her grandson, engaging in rez gossip with his cousin at a pow wow, or lingering in bed with a married man after a hotel room hookup, the narrator makes space for those in his orbit to divulge their private joys and miseries, testing the theory that storytelling can make us feel less lonely.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735242005 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 182 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: [Toronto] : Hamish Hamilton, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Awards Note: | Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winner, 2023. |
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Subject: | Small cities > Alberta, Northern > Fiction. Authors > Fiction. Indigenous peoples > Fiction. Gay men > Fiction. Alberta, Northern > Fiction. |
Topic Heading: | First Nations Canada. Indigenous. |
Available copies
- 2 of 3 copies available at University College of the North Libraries.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Chemawawin Public Library at Easterville | FIC BEL 2022 (Text) | 58500001156959 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
The Pas Campus Library | PS 8603 .E516 M56 2022 (Text) | 58500001117027 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
UCN / Pukatawagan Public Library | FIC BEL 2022 (Text) | 58500001222561 | Stacks | Volume hold | In process | - |