That Treeplanting Story is a cycle of eight tales, including two novella length, set in or around treeplanting camps in British Columbia. The first four stories were awarded an Avery Hopwood prize in major fiction at the University of Michigan in 1980.
A terrific book, a cycle of short fiction set in and around treeplanting contracts and camps in British Columbia—love and loss, the tough economy of living off the grid, men and women finding ways of working together in some very demanding conditions.
De Vries is a charming writer, a cross between Edward Abbey and John Steinbeck, yet a complete original. These stories get right into your heart.
Dan De Vries was born in Grand Rapids, MI. Living in San Francisco since 1991. Before then, Denver, Laramie, Vancouver, Ann Arbor, and periodically up and down the San Francisco peninsula. Grad school in Wyoming and the University of Michigan (Hopwood prize in major fiction in 1980). Author of three novels, Trees for Tomorrow, Blasphemous Rumors, and Piggery, and a short story collection, The Mountain King. Whatever else of much importance is in the stories.