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Other Destinies
Understanding the American Indian Novel
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 1994
286 kr
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This first book-length critical analysis of the full range of novels written between 1854 and today by American Indian authors takes as its theme the search for self-discovery and cultural recovery. In his introduction, Louis Owens places the novels in context by considering their relationships to …
Wolfsong
A Novel
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 1995
286 kr
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In the Cascade Range of northwest Washington, Tom Joseph, a young Indian who had gone south to attend college, returns for his uncle's funeral and finds himself caught up in the old man's fight to save the wilderness from destruction. In his first novel, Louis Owens exposes the raw edge of the …
Bone Game
A Novel
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 1996
317 kr
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Bone Game is a murder mystery on a grand scale. Cole McCurtain, a mixed-blood Indian professor of Indian Studies at Santa Cruz, California, is haunted by dreams dating back to events of Spanish California. Images of a Spanish priest murdered in 1812, a rearing grizzly bear, and a black-and-white …
Dark River
A Novel
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 2000
286 kr
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Jacob Nashoba's journey has taken him from his Choctaw homeland in Mississippi to Vietnam and finally to a small reservation in the mountains of eastern Arizona. A tribal ranger, he lives among people far different from any he has known. Balanced precariously between isolation and community, he is …
I Hear the Train
Reflections, Inventions, Refractions
Av Louis Owens
Inbunden, 2001
357 kr
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In this innovative collection, Louis Owens blends autobiography, short fiction, and literary criticism to reflect on his experiences as a mixedblood Indian in America.In sophisticated prose, Owens reveals the many timbres of his voice--humor, humility,love, joy, struggle, confusion, and clarity. We …
Nightland
A Novel
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 2001
253 kr
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In the hot, dry New Mexico wilderness, Will and Billy, two half-Cherokee ranchers, discover a corpse and a suitcase containing nearly a million dollars. As the two friends contemplate what to do with the money, they set into motion a series of events that will cost them more than they want to …
Mixedblood Messages
Literature, Film, Family, Place
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 2001
286 kr
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In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the environment as depicted in literature and film and as embodied in his own mixedblood roots in family and land. Powerful social and historical forces, he maintains, conspire to …
I Hear the Train
Reflections, Inventions, Refractions
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 2022
227 kr
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In this innovative collection, Louis Owens blends autobiography, short fiction, and literary criticism to reflect on his experiences as a mixedblood Indian in America.In sophisticated prose, Owens reveals the many timbres of his voice--humor, humility,love, joy, struggle, confusion, and clarity. We …
Sharpest Sight
A Novel
Av Louis Owens
Häftad, 1995
283 kr
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Louis Owens has the storyteller's gift of cutting to the heart of human drama. Wonderfully rich, full of magic and people who are magically alive, The Sharpest Sight is a fine novel that should be read by all who seek to understand the American Indian search for identity.""-James Welch, author of …
