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HORTIE, CARL - Annie

Title: Annie
Description: Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0888878877. Signed by Author; DJ shows heavy shelf wear with tears and chipping, some archivally repaired.; Signed by author on the half-title page. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; "Annie Kinnikinck, the central character in this novel set in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), is a young Haida recently promoted to supervisor of the operating room in the small hospital on Moresby Island. She struggles desperately to raise the consciousness of the Indian women on the Islands. She is faced with antagonism and racial prejudice by her white contemporaries as well as the Indians themselves who feel that "no way can an Indian supervise the white employees without becoming more white than the whites themselves,". Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .

Keywords: 0888878877 Haida Haida Gwaii Queen Charlotte Islands moresby island Signed Haida Gwai racial prejudice Fiction::Canadian FICTION

Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 18829

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