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Dave: IMG Jim Lynch Makes Landscape Art... Out of Text

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jimlynchIf Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

by Michael Dorris

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ISBN13: 9780312421854
ISBN10: 0312421850
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Michael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting in the present day and moving backward, the novel is told in the voices of the three women: fifteen-year-old part-black Rayona; her American Indian mother, Christine, consumed by tenderness and resentment toward those she loves; and the fierce and mysterious Ida, mother and grandmother whose haunting secrets, betrayals, and dreams echo through the years, braiding together the strands of the shared past.
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Michael Dorris?s adult fiction includes The Cloud Chamber, The Crown of Columbus, coauthored with Louise Erdrich, and the story collection Working Men. Among his nonfiction works are The Broken Cord, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a collection of essays, Paper Trail
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Sterling, April 12, 2007 (view all comments by Sterling)
I was transfigured while reading this book. This is a book you can't help but read, yet don't want it to end so you put the reading off. No book can compare to this one with the amount of metaphors, similes, and symbols. If you like letters transposed into words and phrases, then you should read this book! What else can I say?
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It was an alright book, but I would not reccomend it to anyone... At all!
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ISBN:
9780312421854
Author:
Dorris, Michael
Publisher:
Picador USA
Location:
New York, N.Y.
Subject:
General
Subject:
Indian women
Subject:
Intergenerational relations
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Edition Number:
1st Picador ed.
Edition Description:
Picador
Series Volume:
323
Publication Date:
March 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
384
Dimensions:
8.28x5.47x.67 in. .67 lbs.
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