Book 53: W. O. Mitchell: Who Has Seen the Wind

I have finally completed this famous Canadian novel about a prairie childhood. I've got the longer edition from McClelland & Stewart 330 pages but no illustrations. The hayloft cover art is a painting from William Kurelek taken from the 1976 illustrated edition. The pic is from the 1977 movie (rating 8).

There are rather few mentionings of bibs and the main character (Brian Sean) is very young except at the end. 4 yo at the beginning, 6 yo at page 31, 7 at p. 162, almost 11 at p. 199 and almost 15 at p. 291.

One good line at page 17 that his mother likes to see a kid in bibs. I hoped to read much more like that.

P. 18 he doesn't want to wear a potato sack

p.19 seen wearing overhawls

p. 31 another 6yo in overall pants + sleeveless shirt

p. 138 (6yo) his bare bottom can be seen through a tear of his faded bibs (barefoot).

The novel is not bad but the movie is much better. I still don't own the expensive DVD. The movie is still on YouTube but in quite bad quality (see the updated movie entry).