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Fiction / Small Town & Rural > Amaranthine Chevrolet

A Canadian Author Canadian Read

Amaranthine Chevrolet

By Dennis E Bolen

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Publish Date

May 13, 2025

Category
Fiction / World Literature / Canada / 20th Century

Price

 $25.99

A teenage boy's curious road trip across a radically changing country.

In the year 1967, fifteen-year-old Robin drives an antique pickup truck west from Saskatchewan, travelling on farmland and on unmapped roads to avoid police. Like Odysseus striving toward home, he encounters trying situations: men on the run, hippies creating utopia, marijuana farmers, mechanical breakdowns, a raging forest fire. Robin passes through a massively changing society - a rural culture that, though eroding, hangs on to values of kindness and endurance, and one in which Robin must be both heroic and vulnerable.

A RARE MACHINES BOOK

Dennis E Bolen is the author of several novels, short story collections, and one volume of poetry. His fiction explores the experience of varied careers: social worker, university instructor, arts journalist, accounts clerk, mill worker, farm hand. He grew up on Vancouver Island and now lives in Victoria, B.C.

ISBN: 9781459754775
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: May 13, 2025

More odyssey than road trip, Amaranthine Chevrolet is a vivid inquiry into a young man's emerging sense of self. In spare and evocative language, Dennis Bolen sweeps you into the rhythm of the road, to a place located somewhere between memory and dreams, and there he reinvents the male protagonist in a miracle of a young man with an adamantine purity of purpose. A unique, fresh, and engrossing story.Amaranthine Chevrolet is the story of a boy's pilgrimage in an enchanted chariot like none other. Spare and incisive with all hell for a basement; this is prairie noir at its best.