Dream wheels : a novel / by Richard Wagamese.
Joe Willie Wolfchild is on the verge of becoming a World Champion rodeo cowboy when a legendary bull cripples him. At the same time, in the same city, Claire Hartley is brutally assaulted and her 14-year-old son, Aiden, is critically injured during a burglary. The young Ojibway-Sioux man, the black single mother and her mulatto son find their lives irrevocably changed.Joe Willie, a rodeo cowboy since he was a child, smolders in angry silence over a deformed left arm and a limp that make it impossible for him to compete. Claire, a victim of numerous bad relationships, withdraws from men and swears a bitter celibacy. Aiden gains notoriety among his criminal peers and slips into a self-destructive spiral of drugs and violence.Eager to find a place for her son to channel his explosive energies, Claire brings Aiden to a rodeo camp run by the Wolfchild family, where he is drawn to bull riding and proves to be a stunning natural. But Joe Willie refuses to have anything to do with the camp, remaining an aloof, mysterious presence to Claire and the boy. Dream Wheels is a story about change. Moving from the Wild West Shows of the late 1880s to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas to a lush valley in the mountains, it tells the story of a people’s journey, a family’s vision, a man’s reawakening, a woman’s recovery, and a boy’s emergence to manhood.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385662000
- ISBN: 0385662009
- Physical Description: 398 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Anchor Canada, 2007.
- Copyright: ©2007.
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Subject: | Indians of North America > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. Rodeos > Fiction. Bull-riding > Fiction. Canada > Fiction. |
Topic Heading: | Aboriginal. First Nation. Indigenous collection. Indigenous authors. |
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