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Stolen Life by Yvonne Johnson
The powerful, major book, acclaimed across Canada, from the great-great-granddaughter of Chief Big Bear and by Rudy Wiebe, twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. This is a story about justice, and terrible injustices, a story about a murder, and a courtroom drama as compelling as any thriller as it unravels the events that put Yvonne Johnson behind bars for life, first in Kingston's Federal Prison for Women until the riot that closed it, and later in the Okimaw Ochi Healing Lodge in the Cypress Hills. But above all it is the unforgettable true story of the life of a Native woman who has decided to speak out and break the silence, written with the redeeming compassion that marks all Rudy Wiebe's writing, and informed throughout by Yvonne Johnson's own intelligence and poetic eloquence. How the great-great-granddaughter of Big Bear reached out to the author of>The Temptations of Big Bear to help her tell her story is itself an extraordinary tale. The co-authorship between one of Canada's foremost writers and the only Native woman in Canada serving life imprisonment for murder produced a deeply moving, raw and honest book that speaks to all of us, and gives us new insight into the society we live in, while offering a deeply moving affirmation of spiritual healing. Stolen Life is a raw, honest, and beautifully written account of the troubled society we live in, and a deeply moving affirmation of spiritual healing.The powerful, major book, acclaimed across Canada, from the great-great-granddaughter of Chief Big Bear and by Rudy Wiebe, twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction.
This is a story about justice, and terrible injustices, a story about a murder, and a courtroom drama as compelling as any thriller as it unravels the events that put Yvonne Johnson behind bars for life, first in Kingston's Federal Prison for Women until the riot that closed it, and later in the Okimaw Ochi Healing Lodge in the Cypress Hills. But above all it is the unforgettable true story of the life of a Native woman who has decided to speak out and break the silence, written with the redeeming compassion that marks all Rudy Wiebe's writing, and informed throughout by Yvonne Johnson's own intelligence and poetic eloquence. How the great-great-granddaughter of Big Bear reached out to the author of>The Temptations of Big Bear to help her tell her story is itself an extraordinary tale. The co-authorship between one of Canada's foremost writers and the only Native woman in Canada serving life imprisonment for murder produced a deeply moving, raw and honest book that speaks to all of us, and gives us new insight into the society we live in, while offering a deeply moving affirmation of spiritual healing. Stolen Life is a raw, honest, and beautifully written account of the troubled society we live in, and a deeply moving affirmation of spiritual healing.
The Author: Yvonne Johnson is Associate Professor of History at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Missouri. She received her Ph.D. in History of Ideas from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her published works include journal articles and entries for historical and literary reference volumes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780676971965 |
| ISBN 10 | 0676971962 |
| Title | Stolen Life |
| Author | Yvonne Johnson |
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| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Canada |
| Year published | 1999-04-20 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Prizes | Winner of Georges Bugnet Award for Novel 1999, Winner of Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize 1998, Short-listed for Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction 1998, Nominated for City of Edmonton Book Prize 1998, Nominated for Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-Fiction 1998 |
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