The Absence of Angels: A Novel (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies Series, Band 14) - Softcover

Penn, W. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806127147 ISBN 13: 9780806127149

Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

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 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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W. S. Penn is a resident fiction writer and teacher of American Indian and Comparative Literature at Michigan State University.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0806127147
• ISBN 13: 9780806127149
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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