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Overcome by his curious academic and sexual inadequacies, professional graduate student Jeremy Sadness lights out from his cramped office at the New York State university for the wilds of the Canadian northwest. He inadvertently exchanges suitcases -- and identities -- with Roger Dorck, the comatose victim of a snowmobiling accident, and becomes hopelessly embroiled in the comic Bacchanalia of the Notikeewin winter festival, during which he is arrested and compelled to judge a beauty contest in which all the contestants look exactly alike. This satire of the "quest novel" is one of the most hilarious works in Canadian literature.
About this Author
Robert Kroetsch grew up on a farm in central Alberta and attended the University of Alberta. He worked in the North for six years, and then went to graduate school in the US for another six. By the time Robert was in his thirties he was ready for serious writing. Since then he has published, among other things, nine novels and numerous books of poetry, essays, a travel book, and a journal. Robert worked for 34 years as a professor, half that time in Upstate New York, the other half in Manitoba. Robert received the Governor General's Award for the 1969 novel, The Studhorse Man. Visit Robert's web site at robertkroetsch.ca.
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