The Ordeal of Running Standing: A Novel
Fall, Thomas
ISBN 10: 0806125713 ISBN 13: 9780806125718
Published by University of Oklahoma Press, 1993
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Synopsis:
In this popular novel admired by both Indian and white readers, Running Standing is a Kiowa born too late to feel himself truly Indian. Driven by his own bitter ambitions, be becomes Joe Standing and cynically joins the conniving whites-hoping to beat them at their own game.
About the Authors:
Thomas Fall was born in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas in a community with many Cherokee Indians. He said he had ?a touch of Cherokee ancestry? and ?grew up in western Oklahoma among many families of Plains Indians representing all the tribes mentions in The Ordeal of Running Standing.?ÿ
Peter G. Beidler, is Professor of English at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Ordeal of Running Standing: A Novel
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good