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Dollybird

by Anne Lazurko
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Housekeeper or whore? A dollybird is either or both in thevocabulary of the prairie west in 1906, leaving the community to draw its own conclusions about who and what Moira isand isn't. Determined to find redemption in the midst of their derision and to find joy despite uncertainty, Moira faces impossible choices with consequences beyond anything she can imagine. Thrown into the purgatory of a bleak prairie landscape as unforgiving as her mother, twenty-year-old Newfoundlander Moira Burns is certain she will rise above the locals of Ibsen, Saskatchewan. Until the reasons for her flight west become clear. Until she is befriended by a prostitute and courted by a 'half breed'. Until she becomes the "dolly-bird" of superstitious Irish Catholic homesteader, Dillan Flaherty. Scattered through with birth, death, and the violent potential of bothman and the elements, Dollybird excavates the small mercies which come to mean more than they should on a prairie peopled with characters struggling under a huge sky that waits, not so quietly, for them to fail.

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Publisher: Coteau Books

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  • ISBN: 9781550507485
  • Release date: August 15, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781550507485
  • File size: 3068 KB
  • Release date: August 15, 2013

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Housekeeper or whore? A dollybird is either or both in thevocabulary of the prairie west in 1906, leaving the community to draw its own conclusions about who and what Moira isand isn't. Determined to find redemption in the midst of their derision and to find joy despite uncertainty, Moira faces impossible choices with consequences beyond anything she can imagine. Thrown into the purgatory of a bleak prairie landscape as unforgiving as her mother, twenty-year-old Newfoundlander Moira Burns is certain she will rise above the locals of Ibsen, Saskatchewan. Until the reasons for her flight west become clear. Until she is befriended by a prostitute and courted by a 'half breed'. Until she becomes the "dolly-bird" of superstitious Irish Catholic homesteader, Dillan Flaherty. Scattered through with birth, death, and the violent potential of bothman and the elements, Dollybird excavates the small mercies which come to mean more than they should on a prairie peopled with characters struggling under a huge sky that waits, not so quietly, for them to fail.

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Fiction Literature
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