Study for obedience
Book |
Alfred A. Knopf Canada,
Toronto :
2023.
- 8 of 13 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Port Colborne Library
- 2 current holds with 13 total copies.
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About
A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity at her and she senses a mounting threat that lies 'just beyond the garden gate.' And as she feels the hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property, she fears that, should the rumblings in the town gather themselves into a more defined shape, who knows what might happen, what one might be capable of doing. With a sharp, lyrical voice, Sarah Bernstein powerfully explores questions of complicity and power, displacement and inheritance. Study for Obedience is a finely tuned, unsettling novel that confirms Bernstein as one of the most exciting voices of her generation.
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Details
- ISBN: 9781039009066
- Physical Description: 192 pages ; 21 cmprint
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023.
- General Note: Longlisted for The Book Prize, 2023
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note: A beginning a beginning again -- A problem of inheritance -- A dying tongue -- On community farming -- A private ritual -- The occasion of a brother -- A meditation on silence.
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Awards Note:
Longlisted for The Book Prize, 2023