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Medicine River

Published
Sep 1990
Main Genre
Historical Historical
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272

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When Will returns to Medicine River, he thinks he is simply attending his mother's funeral. He doesn't count on Harlen Bigbear and his unique brand of community planning. Harlen tries to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River to open shop as the town's only Native photographer. Somehow, that's exactly what happens.

Through Will's gentle and humorous narrative, we come to know Medicine River, a small Albertan town bordering a Blackfoot reserve. And we meet its people: the basketball team; Louise Heavyman and her daughter, South Wing; Martha Oldcrow, the marriage doctor; Joe Bigbear, Harlen's world-travelling, storytelling brother; Bertha Morley, who has a short fling with a Calgary dating service; and David Plume, who went to Wounded Knee. At the centre of it all is Harlen, advising and pestering, annoying and entertaining, gossiping and benevolently interfering in the lives of his friends and neighbours.

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Sep 1991 Penguin ISBN 0140126031
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Sep 1991 Penguin ISBN 0140254749
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First Edition Sep 1990 Viking ISBN 0670829625
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Aug 2018 Penguin Canada ISBN B07G6NDR94
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Nov 2018 Penguin Random House Canada ISBN B07JW7LXV2
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