Black Hills: A Novel - Softcover

SIMMONS

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316006998 ISBN 13: 9780316006996

Publisher: Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books, 2011

Synopsis

Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, first encounters General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at Little Bighorn. He believes--as do the holy men of his tribe--that the legendary general's ghost entered him at that moment and will remain with him until Sapa convinces him to leave.

In BLACK HILLS, Dan Simmons weaves the stories of Paha Sapa and Custer together seamlessly, depicting a violent and tumultuous time in the history of Native Americans and the United States Army. Haunted by the voice of the general his people called "Long Hair," Paha Sapa lives a long life, driven by a dramatic vision he experiences in the Black Hills that are his tribe's homeland. As an explosives worker on the massive Mount Rushmore project, he may finally be rid of his ghosts--on the very day FDR comes to South Dakota to dedicate the Jefferson face.

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'I am in awe of Dan Simmons' Stephen King.

From the Back Cover:

Paha Sapa (Black Hills) is an American Indian shaman, who believes that as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn he took the ghost of the dying General Custer into his body.
Sixty years later, while working as a dynamiter on Mount Rushmore, Paha Sapa plots to blow up the monument. Meanwhile, Custer finds himself trapped in a strange, dark place and begins to write sensuous, heartbreaking missives to his beloved wife.
Thus begins an intricate, visionary story that sweeps across some of the most tumultuous and violent periods of American history, from the old West, to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and into our own time and beyond.

About this edition

• Publisher: Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0316006998
• ISBN 13: 9780316006996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 530