Thirty Acres (New Canadian Library)

About this book

One of the most important books to come out of Quebec Thirty Acres traces the course of one mans life as he enters into the age-old rhythms of the land and of the seasons. At the same time it is a novel on a grand social scale spanning and documenting the tumultuous half-century in which a new industrial urban society crowded out Quebecs traditional rural one. Winner of the Governor Generals Award and numerous other national and international literary prizes Thirty Acres is a universal story of birth and death renewal and reversal ascent and decline and a masterpiece of irony and realism.