Wild Geese

Summary: Wild Geese caused a sensation when it was first published in 1925. As Carlyle King says in his introduction to this edition, it was unheard of, in a generation bred on sentimental escapist literature, to create a main female character "as wild as a bronco and as vivid as a tigress", to paint so strong and uncompromising a portrait of human passion and human need. Today, the spell of Martha Ostenso's lyric prose still brings this tale of a pioneering farm family to vibrant life. Set on the windswept prairies, Wild Geese is a story of love and tyranny, of destruction and survival. But it is also a story of loneliness which, like the call of the wild geese, is beyond human warmth, beyond tragedy, "an endless quest".

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