Studies in Short Fiction, June 22nd, 1996
Smith and Other Events: Tales of the Chilcotin by Paul St. Pierre. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. 318 pages. $11.95 paper.
Smith is one of several recurrent characters who appear in the 12 stories in this book and who have appeared in other St. Pierre stories and in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation national television series Cariboo Country. They are a group of men, wives and children trying to make a living raising cattle in the Fraser river country of British Columbia.
Each person is indeed an "event." Smith is continually puzzled by the ways of his wife Nora and by the...
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