In this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroederfictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen’s wild scheme tobuild an ocean-bound ship in the middle of a wheatfield inSaskatchewan. Set in the hardship of the “Dirty Thirties,”Dustship Glory presents us with Sukanen’s mythiceffort to escape both the drought and pestilence of his time, aswell as his own personal struggle to be free.
Andreas Schroeder is a Canadian novelist, poet, andnonfiction writer.