Badlands

Robert Kroetsch
Fiction / Men's Adventure
240 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2"
ISBN 0–7737–6085–7 paper • CDN 9.95 • USA 9.95

In 1916, scientist William Dawe leads a palaeontological expedition into the badlands of Alberta, obsessed with achieving world renown by discovering dinosaur fossils. Fifty years later, his daughter, Anna, enters these same badlands. In her visit to the expedition site, she exposes not only the absurdity of her father's work, but also the folly of his male ambition.

Reviews
"Kroetsch moves forward and backward in time, speaks in many voices, gives us parallel histories, the truth of correspondences, fully human characters and a setting rich in bones. Perhaps only in such a fiction do we have the real history and the living mythology of the vast and still largely empty Badlands."
–Studies in Canadian Literature