The Back of the Turtle

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The Back of the Turtle
OCLC
890680218

The Back of the Turtle is a novel by Thomas King.[1] Published by HarperCollins in 2014,[1] the novel won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.[2]

Plot

The novel's central character is Gabriel Quinn, a successful scientist of

Athabasca Oil Sands.[4]

Background

King began writing the novel in the early 2000s while teaching at the University of Guelph,[1] but set it aside for several years to write his non-fiction book The Inconvenient Indian,[1] which won the RBC Taylor Prize earlier in 2014.[5]

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