Ordinary Wolves: A Novel (Milkweed National Fiction Prize)

Kantner, Seth

ISBN 10: 1571310444 / ISBN 13: 9781571310446

Published by Milkweed Editions, 2004

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00097421109

Synopsis:

<div>A stirring and vivid novel about a white boy raised among natives on the harsh Alaskan tundra, <i>Ordinary Wolves</i> depicts a life different from what most people have ever known. In its pages, Cutuk, a boy equally uncomfortable in the ways of whites and Inupiaq, tells of his youth and young adulthood: of his father, who brought his family to Alaska from Chicago before Cutuk's birth; of his adopted Inupiaq family; and of the vast Arctic expanse beneath the frozen sky. It is here that Cutuk grows up - hunting, fishing, and living off the land, far away from the grinding, yet beckoning, machine of consumer culture.<br><br>Dispelling all mythical visions of Alaska, this evocative novel leads readers down its true trails, to feel the icy pinch of cold, to hunker as blizzards moan overhead. And in the twilit spaces from which animals appear are the wolves - and Cutuk's father - living their lives out on the tundra, unobtrusive, unapologetic, uninvolved in the world beyond.</div>

Review: "Once in a great while a novel comes along that can shiver right down your bones and show you the world was always larger than you knew. This is just such an astonishing book: exotic as a dream, acrid and beautiful and honest as life, it sweeps back the material curtain of human contrivance to reveal what lies panting behind it. A piece of your heat and some longing, I promise, will stay in that other place forever."

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ordinary Wolves: A Novel (Milkweed National ...
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good