The Grass Dancer (Wheeler Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Power, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568952155 ISBN 13: 9781568952154

Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Back in the 1860s, Ghost Horse, a handsome young sacred clown, loved and lost to death the beautiful warrior woman Red Dress. As their spirits seek desperately to be reunited, they influence the sometimes violent fate of those who have followed them. Now in the 1980s, Red Dress's teenage descendant Charlene Thunder has fallen hopelessly in love with Harley Wind Soldier, the dashing traditional dancer of Ghost Horse's lineage.When Harley's soul mate is killed in an accident, Charlene guiltily suspects her own grandmother, a notorious witch, of making it happen - just as she may well have caused the death of Harley's father and brother, which even today obsesses him.The Grass Dancer is a debut novel for Susan Power, an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

About this title

Review:

"Captivating...a healing vision that goes to the core of our humanity."--New York Times Book Review

"Stunning...Power steeps us in the traditions and culture of contemporary Indian life."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Extravangantly inventive...a book of wonders."--Washington Post Book World

"A wild river of a book. Susan Power writes with a headlong energy and a force that are nothing less than thrilling."--Louise Erdich

"Pure and potent magic, with storytelling that encircles you like wisps of tribal ghosts."--Amy Tan

"Intoxicating...compellingly authentic...Clearly, this author has painted herself a place in the literary landscape."--Chicago Sun-Times

About the Author:

Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and a native Chicagoan. She received an A.B. from Harvard/Radcliffe, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her short fiction has been published in Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, Voice Literary Supplement, Ploughshares, Story, and The Best American Short Stories 1993.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1568952155
• ISBN 13: 9781568952154
• Binding: Hardcover