Book
Dream wheels : a novel / by Richard Wagamese.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385662000 (pbk)
- ISBN: 9780385661997 :
- ISBN: 0385661991 :
- Physical Description: 398 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, c2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Novel. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Bull riding > Fiction. Rodeos > Fiction. Canadian fiction > Ojibwe (Anishinabe) authors. Indigenous of North America > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. Ojibwe (Anishinabe) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Canadian fiction. Western stories. |
| Topic Heading: | Indigenous. Aboriginal |
Available copies
- 14 of 16 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 16 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smithers Public Library | F WAG (Text) | 35101000188537 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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From the acclaimed author of Keeperân Me and For Joshua, Dream Wheels is a vital and unsparing novel from one of the most fascinating voices in Canadian writing.
Joe Willie Wolfchild is on the verge of becoming a World Champion rodeo cowboy when a legendary bull cripples him. At the same time, in the same city, Claire Hartley is brutally assaulted and her 14-year-old son, Aiden, is critically injured during a burglary. The young Ojibway-Sioux man, the black single mother and her mulatto son find their lives irrevocably changed.
Joe Willie, a rodeo cowboy since he was a child, smolders in angry silence over a deformed left arm and a limp that make it impossible for him to compete. Claire, a victim of numerous bad relationships, withdraws from men and swears a bitter celibacy. Aiden gains notoriety among his criminal peers and slips into a self-destructive spiral of drugs and violence.
Eager to find a place for her son to channel his explosive energies, Claire brings Aiden to a rodeo camp run by the Wolfchild family, where he is drawn to bull riding and proves to be a stunning natural. But Joe Willie refuses to have anything to do with the camp, remaining an aloof, mysterious presence to Claire and the boy.
Birch Wolfchild, Joe Willieâs father, sees the potential for Aiden to become a champion and for his son to heal himself, if they can move beyond anger to forge a partnership. Claireâs and Joe Willieâs wounds bring them together in a surprising romance, and beneath it all is Birch Wolfchildâs tale of the changing of the life of the Indian cowboy.
Dream Wheels is a story about change. Moving from the Wild West Shows of the late 1880s to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas to a lush valley in the mountains, it tells the story of a peopleâs journey, a familyâs vision,
a manâs reawakening, a womanâs recovery, and a boyâs emergence to manhood.
