Sasquatch and the Green Sash

By (author) Keith Henderson
Introduction by Kevin Whetter
Illustrated by Steve Adams
Categories: Fiction: general and literary, Fiction and Related items
Publisher: DC Books
Paperback : 9781927599402, 122 pages, November 2018

Description

Sasquatch and the Green Sash is at once a translation and an adaptation of the medieval English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Novelist Keith Henderson has chosen to Canadianize the original. Here is much that is vivid, intriguing, and deeply morally satisfying: Sasquatches, beheadings, Turkish scimitars, caribou hunts, a young RCMP officer involved in illicit love affairs and mysterious ceintures fléchées, all in the stunning panorama of Canada’s Northwest. To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit. ly/2za6183

Reviews

The story-telling tradition would never have become a tradition if people hadnt been willing to work on variations of what came before, and in Sasquatch and the Green Sash, Henderson takes Sir Gawain and the Green Knight further afield than most would dare. Describing his project in the acknowledgements as a hybrid thing, at once an adaptation, translation, and Canadianization, he makes good on all three claims.
--Ian McGillis Montreal Review of Books, March 2019