The Timekeeper
  • Published:
    Jan-1997
  • Formats:
    Print
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    241
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Trevor Ferguson returns to the wilderness of land and soul. The late critic Ken Adachi once wrote of Trevor Ferguson: Ferguson writes as if he were on a wild binge, as if he were determined to compensate us for all the tidily assembled and yet listless or lifeless novels we've read. In The Timekeeper,á Ferguson is still on a binge of wild, darkly funny storytelling, rich in meaning and myth. Martin Bishop, a 16-year-old farm boy forced from his land after the death of his father, joins the construction gang at the Great Slave Lake railway. Alone, except for his sense of right and wrong, Martin is thrown into his job of timekeeper, immediately inciting the wrath of his brutal foreman, whose unorthodox payroll reaches new standards in the slimy pit of graft and corruption. Stocked with eccentric, truly evil and not-so-evil characters, The Timekeeperá is by turns a brutally shocking and comically rich journey, a compelling follow-up to The Fire Line.
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    • First Edition
    • Jan-1997
    • HarperCollins (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0006481124
    • ISBN13: 9780006481126



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