TY - JOUR AU - Wyile, Herb PY - 2002/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Iceman Cometh Across: An Interview with Thomas Wharton JF - Studies in Canadian Literature JA - SCL VL - 27 IS - 1 SE - Interview DO - UR - https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/12812 SP - AB - Author Thomas Wharton discusses the process of writing history in his historical novel <em>Icefields</em> (1995). He talks about the historical pioneering figures of the Canadian Rockies, the sense of "mountain metaphysics" he writes about, and the tradition of writing about the mountains. He also discusses the influence of modernism on his novel, calling <em>Icefields</em> "a modernist novel slightly out of its time." He comments on the relationship between Icefields and his second novel, Salamander. ER -