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Winter in the Blood Paperback - 2008
by James Welch; Introduction by Louise Erdrich; Foreword by Joy Harjo
The author of Fool's Crow and Indian Lawyer presents an extraordinary, evocative novel about a young Native American coming to terms with his heritage--and his dreams. "A nearly flawless novel about human life".--Reynolds Price, New York Times Book Review.
Summary
Two contemporary classics from a major writer of the Native American renaissance
During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works. The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his once proud heritage, and Montana's vast emptiness. Winter in the Blood is an evocative and unforgettable work of literature that will continue to move and inspire anyone who encounters it.
During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works. The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his once proud heritage, and Montana's vast emptiness. Winter in the Blood is an evocative and unforgettable work of literature that will continue to move and inspire anyone who encounters it.
First line
In the tall weeds of the borrow pit, I took a leak and watched the sorrel mare, her colt beside her, walk through burnt grass to the shady side of the log-and-mud cabin.
Details
- Title Winter in the Blood
- Author James Welch; Introduction by Louise Erdrich; Foreword by Joy Harjo
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 2008-08-01
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780143105220 / 0143105221
- Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 7.02 x 0.43 in (19.66 x 17.83 x 1.09 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008019394
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"A nearly flawless novel about human life . . . Few books in any year speak so unanswerably, make their own local terms so thoroughly ours."
-Reynolds Price, The New York Times Book Review
"For some readers this will be the most significant piece of Indian writing they have yet encountered; for others it will simply be a brilliant novel."
-The New Republic
"An unnervingly beautiful book."
-Roger Sale, The New York Review of Books
-Reynolds Price, The New York Times Book Review
"For some readers this will be the most significant piece of Indian writing they have yet encountered; for others it will simply be a brilliant novel."
-The New Republic
"An unnervingly beautiful book."
-Roger Sale, The New York Review of Books
Citations
- Newsweek, 05/26/2008, Page 12
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