Wild Geese

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Wild Geese caused a sensation when it was first published in 1925. As Carlyle King says in his introduction to this edition, it was unheard of, in a generation bred on sentimental escapist literature, to create a main female character "as wild as a broncho and as vivid as a tigress"; to pain so strong and uncompromising a picture of human passion and human need. Today, the spell of Martha Ostenso's lyric prose still brings this tale of a pioneering farm family to vibrant life. Set on the windswept prairies, Wild Geese is a story of love and tyranny, of destruction and survival. But it is also a story of loneliness which, like the call of the wild geese, is beyond human warmth, beyond tragedy, "a magnificent seeking through solitude, an endless quest." (Description taken from the back of this edition.)