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Fred Stenson


Fred Stenson is the author of The Trade, which was nominated for the 2000 Giller Prize and won the inaugural Grant MacEwan Writer’s Award, the City of Edmonton Book Prize, and the Writers Guild of Alberta’s Georges Bugnet Novel Award. The Great Karoo is Stenson’s eighth book of fiction and fifteenth book overall. He has also written scripts for over 140 produced films and videos. He writes a regular humour column for Alberta Views Magazine. He was raised on a farm in the Alberta foothills north of Chief Mountain and lives in Cochrane, Alberta.

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The Great Karoo
Written by Fred Stenson

eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37258-1 (0-307-37258-8)

September 8, 2009 | $21.00

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The Great Karoo
Written by Fred Stenson

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307372581
Our Price: $21.00


From award-winning author Fred Stenson comes a richly evocative new novel, at once brutal and tender, spare of language, and profoundly moving.

The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land...

Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.

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The Great Karoo
Written by Fred Stenson

Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66406-6 (0-385-66406-0)

September 8, 2009 | $21.00

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The Great Karoo
Written by Fred Stenson

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385664066
Our Price: $21.00
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From award-winning author Fred Stenson comes a richly evocative new novel, at once brutal and tender, spare of language, and profoundly moving.

The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land...

Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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The Great Karoo
Written by Fred Stenson

Hardcover | 496 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66405-9 (0-385-66405-2)

September 9, 2008 | $32.95

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The Great Karoo
Written by Fred Stenson

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385664059
Our Price: $32.95
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From award-winning author Fred Stenson comes a richly evocative new novel, at once brutal and tender, spare of language, and profoundly moving.

The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.