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Ducks - Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Drawn & Quarterly

Type: Novel - Hardcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels (Drawn & Quarterly)

Last Stocked on 5/12/2024

Product Info

Title
Ducks - Two Years in the Oil Sands
Publisher
Category
Author
Kate Beaton
Publish Year
2022
Pages
436
Dimensions
7.25x9.5x1.75"
NKG Part #
2148138196
Type
Novel - Hardcover

Description

Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can’t find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed.

Beaton’s natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, northern lights, and boreal forest. Her first full length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people.