Half-Light

Westbound on a Hot Planet

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Amy Kaler, University of Alberta) Kaler, Amy (Professor, Department of Sociology

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Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to “go west,” Amy Kaler offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, middle age, and climate catastrophe. She explores “ruins” of the human history of the North American settler west—faded hamlets, bunkers, fields of cars, bends in the river—that serve as emblems of hope, generational commitment abandoned by contemporary heirs, faith, hubris, even carelessness. These stops are intertwined with reflections on aging, temporality, and change, making the book feel like a deeply satisfying road trip with a thoughtful friend. Moving from meditative to ardent to sobering in compelling and measured ways, Half-Light shimmers with urgency and suggestion.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-05-30
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt822 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieWayfarer
Antal sidor248
FörlagUniversity of Alberta Press
ISBN9781772127409
UtmärkelserShort-listed for Regional Book of the Year, Alberta Book Publishing Awards, Book Publishers Association of Alberta 2025 (Canada)

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Amy Kaler is an Edmonton-based writer and Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. She has lived in Edmonton, Treaty 6 territory since 2000. She is the author of Until Further Notice: A Year in Pandemic Time, a collection of essays published in 2022. She is also the author of three previous books. Kaler won the Cecile E. Mactaggart Travel Prize for Narrative Writing in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Award for Personal Essays in 2021 and longlisted in 2022. Her nonacademic work appears in The New Quarterly, Queens Quarterly, and Spadina Literary Review.

PrologueCentral Alberta, Somewhere Near RumseyWestboundRetlawOn Fire for the Rest of My LifeRossdale Flats and the Bomb ShelterThe West and Its RuinsSwan HillsWestbound All AlongCampus Saint-JeanThe End of the World and the Ends of the EarthDalumOrphansSt. PaulMy SeventiesStrathcona Science ParkThe Years Before Me, the Years BehindNewbrookAncestors and DescendantsWostok and Spaca MoskalykHome for the Time BeingPackingtownThe Most Important Things Have Already HappenedHoly TransfigurationStanding PoseRowley“Your Cell Will Teach You”Newcastle MineTime ManagementAbbotsfordKeeping TimeRochfort BridgePigeonsPalliser TriangleWho Is That?Bunchberry MeadowsTop Ten CrisesBeaverhill LakeEpilogue: Eastbound AcknowledgementsReferences