Amaranthine Chevrolet - Dundurn

Amaranthine Chevrolet

Available May 13th 2025

Paperback
$ 25.99

Description

“A boy’s pilgrimage in an enchanted chariot like none other. Spare and incisive...this is prairie noir at its best.” — Ashley Little, author of Niagara Motel

A teenage boy’s curious road trip across a radically changing country.


In the year 1967, fifteen-year-old Robin drives an antique pickup truck west from Saskatchewan, travelling on farmland and on unmapped roads to avoid police. Like Odysseus striving toward home, he encounters trying situations: men on the run, hippies creating utopia, marijuana farmers, mechanical breakdowns, a raging forest fire. Robin passes through a massively changing society — a rural culture that, though eroding, hangs on to values of kindness and endurance, and one in which Robin must be both heroic and vulnerable.

A RARE MACHINES BOOK

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Contributors

Dennis E. Bolen

Dennis E. Bolen is the author of several novels, short story collections, and one volume of poetry. His fiction explores the experience of varied careers: social worker, university instructor, arts journalist, accounts clerk, mill worker, farm hand. He grew up on Vancouver Island and now lives in Victoria, BC.

Book Details

Paperback
May 2025
5.5x8.5 in
256 pp
9781459754775
ePub
May 2025
-
256 pp
9781459754782
ePub
May 2025
-
256 pp
9781459754799