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Talking at the Woodpile

Author: David Thompson  

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A collection of short stories, that reveals the charm and grit of life in the Yukon. It portrays life in a small Canadian community, weaving the characters in and out of each other's tales and in and out of the history that shaped the great Canadian North.

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A collection of short stories, that reveals the charm and grit of life in the Yukon. It portrays life in a small Canadian community, weaving the characters in and out of each other's tales and in and out of the history that shaped the great Canadian North.

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In this humourous and refreshing collection of short stories, David Thompson reveals the charm and grit of life in the Yukon. This is a masterful blend of fact and fiction, history and the contemporary and intriguing stories that begin as long as 10,000 years ago. In "Frozen in Time" an unsuspecting miner discovers a frozen carcass while digging for gold. After much to-do about the origin of the gigantic creature, the mammoth and its unfortunate victim are laid to rest by the local First Nations community. In a moment of wry humour, Thompson describes a small town rivalry that ends when a firewood thief blows his fireplace sky high, to the delight of his victimized neighbours. And in the collection's title story "Talking at the Woodpile" two long-time friends unwittingly challenge each other to a talking duel, which ultimately leads to a nasty case of frostbite, and an even nastier case of cold shoulder. In his first collection of short stories David Thompson portrays life in a small Canadian community, weaving his characters in and out of each other's tales and in and out of the history that shaped the great Canadian North.

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About the Author

David Thompson is a general building contractor who has lived in the Yukon Territory since 1962. His love for the land and its people has inspired him to write short stories describing life in the Yukon. He has twice won Dawson City's "Authors on Eighth" writing contest for short story fiction and has had stories published in local newspapers. David lives in Whitehorse with his wife Wendy, a Montessori teacher, two children Adam and Shawna, son-in-law Gary and two grandsons, Cameron and Jordon.

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Product Details

Publisher
Caitlin Press
Published
1st February 2011
Pages
224
ISBN
9781894759571

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