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The story of the wars of belief between the French Jesuits and the Iroquois in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Canada – from the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award
With the same panoramic vision and mythic sensibility he brought to The Ice-Shirt, William T. Vollmann continues his hugely original fictional history of the clash of Indians and Europeans in the New World. It is 400 years ago, and the Black Gowns, French Jesuit priests, are beginning their descent into the forests of Canada, eagerly seeking to convert the Huron--and courting martyrdom at the hands of the rival Iroquois. Through the eyes of these vastly different peoples--particularly through those of the grimly pious Father Jean de Brebeuf and the Indian prophetess Born Underwater--Vollmann reconstructs America's past as tragedy, nightmare, and bloody spectacle. In the process, he does nothing less than reinvent the American novel as well.
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William T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, andRising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Vollman's writing has been published inThe New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, Esquire, Conjunctions, Granta, and many other magazines. He lives in California.
William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st printing in 1993. 990pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "With the same panoramic vision and mythic sensibility he brought to The Ice-Shirt, William T. Vollmann continues his hugely original fictional history of the clash of Indians and Europeans in the New World. It is 400 years ago, and the 'Black Gowns,' French Jesuit priests, are beginning their descent into the forests of Canada, eagerly seeking to convert the Huron--and courting martyrdom at the hands of the rival Iroquois. Through the eyes of these vastly different peoples--particularly through those of the grimly pious Father Jean de Brebeuf and the Indian prophetess Born Underwater--Vollmann reconstructs America's past as tragedy, nightmare, and bloody spectacle. In the process, he does nothing less than reinvent the American novel as well." [publisher copy] "Vollmann is the only [novelist] capable of filling the seven-league boots of John Barth, William Gaddis, and Thomas Pynchon. . . FATHERS AND CROWS is a richly imaginative and boldly innovative achievement."--Steven Moore, The Washington Post. "A striking portrayal of two cultures locked in mortal combat. . . Vollmann's strength lies in narratives caught in the necessity of history, studded with gritty realistic details and zapped with dream visions and corkscrewing sentences of wonderful beauty."--John Vernon, Newsday. "The SEVEN DREAMS sequence promises to return us to the history of the North American continent in a form we've never seen it before. . . It is likely to become one of the masterpieces of the century."--Madison Smartt Bell, Chicago Tribune. Near-pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, uniform age-toned pages, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable. (See my listings RUB3296 & RUB3298 for 2 more Fine Penguins in this series, which I will sell together with this for 77.77). Seller Inventory # RUB3297
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