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9780806127149: The Absence of Angels: A Novel: 14 (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)
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ISBN 10: 0806127147 ISBN 13: 9780806127149
Editorial: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995

Sinopsis

A magical novel about urban mixed-blood Indian life is Albert (Alley) Hummingbird, a self-conscious, shy college student who masks his feelings with humore and who longs to reconcile the two cultures that have formed him. "Full of a beautiful generosity of spirit. The depiction of the relationship between Alley and Sara Baites (one of the most lovingly detailed portraits of a woman in a recent novel I know by a man or a woman) I found particularly moving. This is a powerful first novel."-Arnold KrupatVolume 14 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series.

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Acerca del autor

W.S. Penn, an urban mixblood, is a resident fiction writer and teacher of American Indian and Comparative Literature at Michigan State University. He is the winner of the 1993 North American Indian Prose Award

De la contraportada

The narrator-protagonist of this magical novel about urban mixed-blood Indian life is Albert (Alley) Hummingbird, a self-conscious, shy college student who masks his feelings with humor and who longs to reconcile the two cultures that have formed him. Alley is not supposed to live at birth, but his grandfather, a Nez Perce, rescues him from Death (who reappears throughout the novel as a petty, mean, pathetic, and ultimately funny character). The grandfather's teachings to Alley, which come from the afterlife region known as the "absence of angels", connect Alley to his Indian heritage when he most needs it. Otherwise his life is fragmented: a father who rejected his heritage, a mother who is slightly mad, and a friend, Sara, with whom Alley is in love.

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Editorial
University of Oklahoma Press
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0806127147
ISBN 13 
9780806127149
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
274
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