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This is a new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian
novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird's "Waste Heritage" is a
groundbreaking work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and
violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia in
1938. The story follows the progress of two friends, Matt Striker,
a 23-year-old from Saskatchewan, and his simple-minded companion
Eddy, as they travel from Vancouver to Victoria following the
occupation of the Vancouver Post Office. Like the unemployed masses
that took siege of the Post Office, Matt and Eddy yearn for relief
after years of economic depression. Empathetic and tragic, "Waste
Heritage" has been praised as Canada's "Grapes of Wrath" and the
most important Canadian novel of the 1930s. A new critical
apparatus surrounds Baird's original text, informing the reader of
the historical and literary contexts of the work, as well as
providing exhaustive textual analysis.
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