What the Crow Said (cuRRents)
Contributors: Robert Rawdon Wilson (Introduction)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780888643032
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction; Fiction / General; General
Description: What the Crow Said tells the exuberant, ribald, elemental tale of the citizens of a town somewhere on the weather-beaten border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. After Vera Lang consorts with a swarm of bees, something changes in Big Indian. This prairie municipality - so remote from the rest of the world that its citizens aren't sure which province they live in - becomes somehow locked inside its own world of patience, yearning and willful struggle with nature.

Along the way, Big Indian emerges as a place simultaneously in the past and the present, the real and the imaginary, where a game of cards might last forever and a defeated farmer can freeze on his snowbound plow in June.