Where the truth lies
Subtitle: selected essays
By: Rudy Wiebe
Contributors: Kamboureli, Smaro, editor
Series: Writer as critic series -- XIV; Writer as critic series -- v. 14.
Publisher: NeWest Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Edmonton, Alberta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781926455754; 9781926455761; 9781926455778
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Canadian essays; Canadian essays (English)
Work titles: Essays
Description: A collection of forty years of essays and speeches by the author.
Notes: "Editor: Smaro Kamboureli"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-311).

Issued also in electronic formats.
Table of contents: title: Terminal disease; title: A frontier visit; title: With the flow; title: Documenting a writer's life: an aggravation of quotes; title: Hold your peace; title: On the trail of Big Bear; title: Where the truth lies: exploring the nature of fact and fiction; title: In the west; title: On the civil right to destroy Canada; title: Land, language and law; title: The elusive meaning of "north"; title: The wind and the caribou; title: On being on the top of the world; title: Acceptance speech, governer general's award ceremonies; title: Where the black rocks lie in the Old Man's River; title: The sweet fiction of owning land; title: On death and writing; title: Killing our way to peace; title: The body knows as much as the soul; title: Flowers for approaching the fire; title: Look to the rock.