Author: Harold Rhenisch. Published by New Star Books, Vancouver, BC., 2000, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.75 x 5.5 inch, 264 pages.
TOM THOMSON'S SHACK, by Harold Rhenisch, is where city and country are reconciled in this series of short prose pieces encompassing Toronto’s vast urban sprawl and British Columbia’s Interior.
On a visit to Canada’s largest metropolis, the author is drawn north to Kleinburg, site of Group of Seven artist Tom Thomson’s studio. There he finds himself immersed in the crucible of “Canada,” the cultural construct he recognizes from elemenary-school textbooks. And suddenly it all falls into place: rural, suburban, and urban coalesce in Rhenisch’s spare, acutely perceptive words.
