" Saul chronicles his life story as a means of identifying the source of his addiction. His autobiography is a familiar vehicle for conveying the novel’s plot. At the same time, it demonstrates how knowing your own story can heal a broken spirit." - Reviewed by Donna Bailey Nurse for the National Post
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" In spare, poetic language, Wagamese wrestles with trauma and its fallout, and charts the long, lonely walk to survival." - Reviewed by Publishers weekly
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"The novel is about racism in its rawest form, brutally expressed by the residential school, and generally supported by the larger culture." Reviewed by Ron Kirbyson of the Winnipeg Free Press.
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" Wagamese excels at this most important task of the novelist, which is to detail the "how" of something: How it feels to be a "rounder," living on the streets, how it feels to experience horrifying events, or, in Indian Horse, how it feels to skate, to move the puck and to understand the dynamics of the game. He shows how it feels to uncover in oneself unexpected power and also to acknowledge amazing betrayal." Reviewed by Jane Smiley
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Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese. (2012, February 17). Retrieved from https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/indian-horse-by-richard-wagamese/article548905/