The Death of Jim Loney

The Death of Jim Loney
Title The Death of Jim Loney PDF eBook
Author James Welch
Publisher National Geographic Books
Total Pages 0
Release 2008-07-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0143105183

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James Welch never shied away from depicting the lives of Native Americans damned by destiny and temperament to the margins of society. The Death of Jim Loney is no exception. Jim Loney is a mixed-blood, of white and Indian parentage. Estranged from both communities, he lives a solitary, brooding existence in a small Montana town. His nights are filled with disturbing dreams that haunt his waking hours. Rhea, his lover, cannot console him; Kate, his sister, cannot penetrate his world. In sparse, moving prose, Welch has crafted a riveting tale of disenfranchisement and self-destruction. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Fools Crow

Fools Crow
Title Fools Crow PDF eBook
Author James Welch
Publisher Penguin
Total Pages 404
Release 1987
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780140089370

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In the Two Medicine territory of Montana, the Pikuni Indians are forced to choose between fighting a futile war or accepting a humiliating surrender, as the encroaching numbers of whites threaten their very existence

The Death of Jim Loney

The Death of Jim Loney
Title The Death of Jim Loney PDF eBook
Author James Welch
Publisher Penguin
Total Pages 177
Release 2008-07-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0143105183

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James Welch never shied away from depicting the lives of Native Americans damned by destiny and temperament to the margins of society. The Death of Jim Loney is no exception. Jim Loney is a mixed-blood, of white and Indian parentage. Estranged from both communities, he lives a solitary, brooding existence in a small Montana town. His nights are filled with disturbing dreams that haunt his waking hours. Rhea, his lover, cannot console him; Kate, his sister, cannot penetrate his world. In sparse, moving prose, Welch has crafted a riveting tale of disenfranchisement and self-destruction. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Killing Custer

Killing Custer
Title Killing Custer PDF eBook
Author James Welch
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages 324
Release 2007-01-30
Genre History
ISBN 9780393329391

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The classic account of Custer\'s Last Stand that shattered themyth of the Little Bighorn and rewrote history books. This historic and personal work tells the Native American sideof Custer\'s fabled attack, poignantly revealing how disastrous theencounter was for the "victors," the last great gathering of PlainsIndians under the leadership of Sitting Bull.

Riding the Earthboy 40

Riding the Earthboy 40
Title Riding the Earthboy 40 PDF eBook
Author James Welch
Publisher Penguin
Total Pages 80
Release 2004-10-05
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1101175176

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Now with an introduction from celebrated poet James Tate, Riding the Earthboy 40 is the only volume of poetry written by acclaimed Native American novelist James Welch. The title of the book refers to the forty acres of Montana land Welch's father once leased from a Blackfeet family called Earthboy. This land and its surroundings shaped the writer's worldview as a youth, its rawness resonates in the vitality of his elegant poetry, and his verse shows a great awareness of a moment in time, of a place in nature, and of the human being in context. Deeply evoking the specific Native American experience in Montana, Welch's poems nonetheless speak profoundly to all readers. With its new introduction, this vital work that has influenced so many American writers is certain to capture a new generation of readers.

Understanding James Welch

Understanding James Welch
Title Understanding James Welch PDF eBook
Author Ronald E. McFarland
Publisher Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages 232
Release 2000
Genre Authors, American
ISBN

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In Understanding James Welch, Ron McFarland offers analysis and critical commentary on the works of the renowned Blackfoot-Gros Ventre writer whose first novel, Winter in the Blood has become a classic in Native American fiction and who book of poems, Riding the Earthboy 40, has remained in print since its initial publication in 1971. McFarland offers close readings of Welch's poems, four novels and recent book, Killing Custer, which tells the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn from a Native American perspective.

The Heartsong of Charging Elk

The Heartsong of Charging Elk
Title The Heartsong of Charging Elk PDF eBook
Author James Welch
Publisher Anchor
Total Pages 450
Release 2001-10-02
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0385496753

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From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow, James Welch gives us a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination. Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of nineteenth-century Marseille. Left behind in a Marseille hospital after a serious injury while the show travels on, he is forced to remake his life alone in a strange land. He struggles to adapt as well as he can, while holding on to the memories and traditions of life on the Plains and eventually falling in love. But none of the worlds the Indian has known can prepare him for the betrayal that follows. This is a story of the American Indian that we have seldom seen: a stranger in a strange land, often an invisible man, loving, violent, trusting, wary, protective, and defenseless against a society that excludes him but judges him by its rules. At once epic and intimate, The Heartsong of Charging Elk echoes across time, geography, and cultures.