Author: Robert Kroetsch
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: currents, man, studhorse
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-04-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0888644256
ISBN-13: 9780888644251

Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A lusty trickster and a wayward knight, Hazard’s outrageous adventures are narrated by Demeter Proudfoot, his secret rival, who writes this story while sitting naked in an empty bathtub. In his quest to save his stallion’s bloodline from extinction, Hazard leaves a trail of anarchy and confusion. Everything he touches erupts into chaos necessitating frequent convalescences in the arms of a few good women–excepting those of Martha, his long-suffering intended. Told with the ribald zeal of a