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The Heartsong of Charging Elk: A Novel, , Welch, James, Very Good, 2000-08-15,
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “SIGNED by the author.”
- Languages
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385496742
- Book Title
- Heartsong of Charging Elk : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Native American & Aboriginal, Literary, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 27.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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Inspired by actual historical fact, James Welch's tells the story of an Oglala Sioux who travels the extraordinary geographical and cultural distance from tribal life in the Black Hills of South Dakota to existence on the streets of Marseille. As a young boy, Charging Elk witnessed his people's massacre of Custer's Seventh Cavalry at Little Big Horn, followed by years of futile fighting and wandering until the Sioux were finally lured to the Pine Ridge reservation. But he prefers life in the Stronghold, living by his wits and skills in the old way. Ironically, it is Charging Elk's horsemanship and independent air that cause Buffalo Bill to recruit him for his Wild West Show, which travels across "the big water" to create a sensation in the capitals of Europe. Charging Elk and his Sioux companions are living a life touched by fame and marked by previously unthinkable experiences--until he falls ill in Marseille and, through a bureaucratic mix-up, is left behind in a hospital while the show travels on. Scared, disoriented, Charging Elk escapes--only to fall into a series of events, including a love affair with a prostitute and a shocking murder, that will change his life utterly beyond his imagination. James Welch, one of our truly great Native American writers, has taken a fascinating premise and realized it with utter mastery. Reminiscent of Fools Crow, his classic novel of Indian life, The Heartsong of Charging Elk is a haunting epic of culture shock and colliding ways of life and thought, sure to be hailed by reviewers and readers alike.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0385496745
ISBN-13
9780385496742
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1620113
Product Key Features
Book Title
Heartsong of Charging Elk : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Native American & Aboriginal, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
27.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3573.E44h4 2000
Reviews
Advance Praise forThe Heartsong of Charging Elk "Fools Crow is one of the greatest, most absorbing novels of mainstream American literature. It's absurd to stick it on a 'Native American' reservation. Now, inThe Heartsong of Charging Elk, the fact-based saga of an Oglala Sioux who joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and ends up in Marseille, James Welch has once again written a major American novel." -- Annie Dillard "James Welch has done it again.The Heartsong of Charging Elkdeserves a listing among the classics of American fiction." -- Tony Hillerman "This moving portrait of an Oglala Sioux, cut off from the heartland and adrift in the blind bureaucracy of nineteenth-century France, has a slow, brooding power that builds majestically. I was captivated by the story of Charging Elk's peculiar and tragic exile, a brilliant representation of clashing cultures." -- Andrea Barrett "This history-shadowed story, which truly reads like a song from the divided heart of the Old World and the New, is a consummate leap of imagination by a sure-handed and wise writer. James Welch, who long has been one of our finest American voices, here reaches the goal of all great literature: to transform words into worlds." -- Ivan Doig "I just finished readingThe Heartsong of Charging Elk. I think Jim Welch has written a masterpiece." -- Leslie Marmon Silko "Horseback mornings by the Greasy Grass, Custer and Crazy Horse both dead, Buffalo Bill and his Wild West under the great Iron Tree in Paris, a stranded Sioux warrior reinventing his life on the streets of nineteenth-century Marseille--The Heartsong of Charging Elkis vividly imagined and wonderfully readable, a romance, a fable, and a sternly realistic story about salvaging emotional victory. Hats off to James Welch." -- William Kittredge "James Welch's Winter in the Blood is one of the masterpieces of American literature. His newest book,The Heartsong of Charging Elk, will take its place beside it--a wonderful, compelling novel about a Native American stranded in Europe, whose story is both a vividly imagined account of the strange events in France as well as a striking metaphor for the tragic journey of the Sioux in South Dakota. Like all of James Welch's books, it is a cause for celebration." -- Kent Haruf "There are books you read once and put away. There are books you read once and never forget. And then there are those very special books you keep returning to, reading them once or twice a year for the rest of your life. James Welch's Heartsong is one of those very special books. I have read it three times already and plan to carry it around like a traveling salesman, like a zealous evangelist, forcing the book into the hands of strangers and friends, preaching, 'Hey, this may not save your life, but it's certainly going to give you a fighting chance.'" -- Sherman Alexie
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-058875
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21
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