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A magical novel about urban mixed-blood Indian life is Albert (Alley) Hummingbird, a self-conscious, shy college student who masks his feelings with humore and who longs to reconcile the two cultures that have formed him. "Full of a beautiful generosity of spirit. The depiction of the relationship between Alley and Sara Baites (one of the most lovingly detailed portraits of a woman in a recent novel I know by a man or a woman) I found particularly moving. This is a powerful first novel."-Arnold Krupat Volume 14 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series.
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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.
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The narrator-protagonist of this novel about urban mixed-blood Indian life is Albert Hummingbird, a self-conscious, shy college student who longs to reconcile the two cultures that have formed him. The author was the winner of the 1993 North American Indian Prose Award.
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- PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0806127147
- ISBN 13 9780806127149
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages268
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