River Of Stone
A rare and marvellous collection by a master teller of tales, together in one volume for the first time.River of Stone brings to readers an appealing selection of Rudy Wiebe's best and most loved writing — and draws us into a world that he has made distinctively his own. In this haunting collection, his stories and memoirs play off each other to reveal the geographical and emotional range of the country. Here we have timeless meditations on country, particularly the West and the North; memories of a Mennonite childhood, and the pain of being cast out by the community; of writing and history; of pioneer days lived with love and struggle; and unexpected, entertaining stories that are by turn loving,…
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March 4, 2011
Rudy Wiebe was born on October 4, 1934, in an isolated farm community of about 250 people in a rugged but lovely region near Fairholme, Saskatchewan. His parents had escaped Soviet Russia with five children in 1930, part of the last generation of homesteaders to settle the Canadian West, and part of a Mennonite history of displacement and emigration through Europe and Asia to North and South America since the seventeenth century. In 1947 his family gave up their bush farm and moved to Coaldale, Alberta, a town east of Lethbridge peopled largely by Ukrainians, Mennonites, Mormons, and Central Europeans, as well as Japanese, who ended up there during WW II.
Rudy Wiebe read as much as possible from an early…
Come Back
Rudy Wiebe
Extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear
Rudy Wiebe
River Of Stone
Rudy Wiebe
Temptations Of Big Bear
Rudy Wiebe
Peace Shall Destroy Many
Rudy Wiebe
The Blue Mountains of China
Rudy Wiebe, Afterword by Eva-Marie Kroller Afterword by Eva-Marie Kroller
Fruits of the Earth
Frederick Philip Grove, Afterword by Rudy Wiebe Afterword by Rudy Wiebe
Of This Earth
Rudy Wiebe
Sweeter Than All The World
Rudy Wiebe
Stolen Life
Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe
A Discovery Of Strangers
Rudy Wiebe