The Heart of a Peacock

A long-unavailable miscellany of Emily Carr's writings, this collection takes its title from one of the several stories and word-sketches included here. Her devoted pets, her childhood, her Indian acquaintances, the beauties of the West Coast - these are the subjects vividly brought to life in the pieces.

The stories recount the struggle in the life of an Indian mother; an episode in one family's observance of the Sabbath; the growing desperation of an Indian woman as she responds in the only way possible to a wire she cannot read; and a tale of romantic love. THE HEART OF A PEACOCK offers the reader a mingled experience of the sad and the joyful, the cruel and the tender.

ISBN 0-7725-1612-X
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