Ridgerunner / Gil Adamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adamson, Gil, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drifters--Fiction.

Drifters.

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Outlaws--Fiction.

Outlaws.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Fiction

Historical fiction

Western stories.

Physical Description:

443 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Ridge runner

Place of Publication:

[Toronto, Ontario] : Anansi, 2020.

Summary:

"November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son's future. Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton, born in the woods to two outlaws, now finds himself semi-orphaned and left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun of the Anglican Order of Saint Mara. In the town of Banff, Alberta, where tourists, new immigrants, and POWs dwell among the locals, she lays claim to the boy and keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old home. The boy longs to return to his family's cabin, deep in the Sawback Range. His father is coming for him. The nun won't let him go. Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly changing landscape in the West, Gil Adamson's follow-up to her award-winning debut The Outlander is a vivid historical novel that draws from the epic tradition and a literary Western brimming with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss, and steeped in the wild of the natural world."--Provided by publisher.

William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son's future. Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton has been left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun who keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old house. Though he knows his father is coming for him, the boy longs to return to his family's cabin, deep in the woods. When Jack finally breaks free, he takes with him something the nun is determined to get back -- at any cost. Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly changing landscape in the West, Gil Adamson's follow-up to her award-winning debut, The Outlander, is a vivid historical novel that draws from the epic tradition and a literary Western brimming with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss, and steeped in the wild of the natural world.

Notes:

"Published in Canada in 2020 and the USA in 2021 by House of Anansi Press Inc."--title-page verso.

Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist, 2020

Other Format:

Online version: Adamson, Gil. Ridgerunner.

ISBN:

9781487006563

148700656X

OCLC:

1120769158

Publisher Number:

99986138045