The redemption of Oscar Wolf
As an angry thirteen-year-old in 1930, Oscar Wolf, a Native from the Chippewas of Rama Indian Reserve, sets a fire that inadvertently kills his grandfather and a young maid. Haunted by guilt and fear of retribution, he sets out on a lifelong quest for redemption. Through a series of adventures and occupations, he discovers that peace of mind in the middle of the twentieth-century is a difficult thing to find.
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- ISBN: 1459709829
- ISBN: 9781459709829
- Physical Description 266 pages : maps
- Publisher Toronto : Dundurn, [2013]
- Copyright ©2013
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General Note: | NFPL Indigenous Collection. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 26.99 |
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The Redemption of Oscar Wolf
A young First Nations man sets out from his Muskoka home in a quest for redemption after a terrible fire. In the early 1930s, Oscar Wolf, a 13-year-old Native from the Chippewas of Rama Indian Reserve, sets fire to the business section of his village north of Toronto in a fit of misguided rage against white society, inadvertently killing his grandfather and a young maid. Tortured by guilt and fearful of divine retribution, Oscar sets out on a lifetime quest for redemption. His journey takes him to California where he works as a fruit picker and prizefighter during the Great Depression, to the Second World War where he becomes a decorated soldier, to university where he excels as a student and athlete, and to the diplomatic service in the postwar era where he causes a stir at the United Nations in New York and in Colombia and Australia. Beset by an all-too-human knack for making doubtful choices, Oscar discovers that peace of mind is indeed hard to find in this saga of mid-20th-century aboriginal life in Canada and abroad that will appeal to readers of all backgrounds and ages.