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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
de Louise Erdrich
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0792257197
- ISBN 13
- 9780792257196
- Librería
-
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Sobre este artículo
A barely read book with tight binding, deckle edge. The cover has minor edgewear due to storage. One owner (me).
In Books & Islands in Ojibwe Country Erdrich compellingly writes about the Ojibwe spirits and songs, language, and sorrows that have passed down through generations. Erdrich later travels to Rainy Lake, to an island of real books, the world of an exuberant eccentric and close friend to the Ojibwe, who established an extraordinary library there a hundred years ago. Set against commentary about her own family and contemporary lifeand written in beautiful and powerful proseBooks & Islands in Ojibwe Country is an intensely thoughtful, intimate, and fascinating cultural excursion.
In Books & Islands in Ojibwe Country Erdrich compellingly writes about the Ojibwe spirits and songs, language, and sorrows that have passed down through generations. Erdrich later travels to Rainy Lake, to an island of real books, the world of an exuberant eccentric and close friend to the Ojibwe, who established an extraordinary library there a hundred years ago. Set against commentary about her own family and contemporary lifeand written in beautiful and powerful proseBooks & Islands in Ojibwe Country is an intensely thoughtful, intimate, and fascinating cultural excursion.
Sinopsis
For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply poetic novels which have won her a place among today's finest writers. Her nonfiction is equally eloquent, and this lovely memoir offers a vivid glimpse of the landscape, the people, and the long tradition of storytelling that give her work its magical, elemental force. In a small boat like those her Native American ancestors have used for countless generations, she travels to Ojibwe home ground, the islands of Lake of the Woods in southern Ontario. Her only companions are her new baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader, on a pilgrimage to the sacred rock paintings their people have venerated for centuries as mystical "teaching and dream guides," and where even today Ojibwe leave offerings of tobacco in token of their power. With these paintings as backdrop, Erdrich summons to life the Ojibwe's spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, and the tales that are in their blood, echoing through her own family's very contemporary American lives and shaping her vision of the wider world. Thoughtful, moving, and wonderfully well observed, her meditation evokes ancient wisdom, modern ways, and the universal human concerns we all share. "This book is a treasure and a delight."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Detalles
- Librería
- Barking Dog Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 3/17/22-2
- Título
- Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
- Autor
- Louise Erdrich
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tight
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0792257197
- ISBN 13
- 9780792257196
- Editorial
- National Geographic Society
- Lugar de publicación
- Washington, D.c., U.s.a.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003-06-01
- Páginas
- 143
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Barking Dog Books
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Denver, Colorado
Sobre Barking Dog Books
Barking Dog Books has been a small online bookstore for twenty years. It's a one-person operation, driven by my love of books. Most books are historical or literary in nature. Coming to you from Denver, Colorado.
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- Tight
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- Deckle edge
- Deckle edge is the feathered edge of a page. Traditionally and historically, this was a side effect of the process of making...
