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Fathers and Crows: Volume Two of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes (Seven Dreams Volume #02)

by William T. Vollmann

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ISBN13: 9780140167177
ISBN10: 014016717x
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Publisher Comments:

With the same panoramic vision and mythic sensibility he brought to The Ice-Shirt, William T. Vollmann continues his hugely original fictional history of the clash of Indians and Europeans in the New World. It is 400 years ago, and the "Black Gowns," French Jesuit priests, are beginning their descent into the forests of Canada, eagerly seeking to convert the Huron — and courting martyrdom at the hands of the rival Iroquois. Through the eyes of these vastly different peoples — particularly through those of the grimly pious Father Jean de Brebeuf and the Indian prophetess Born Underwater — Vollmann reconstructs America's past as tragedy, nightmare, and bloody spectacle. In the process, he does nothing less than reinvent the American novel as well.

Review:

"Vollmann's ambition is without parallel, and clearly he has set in place another solid block of his audacious project." Publishers Weekly

Review:

"Vast and vivid as Canada itself, mingling the cold, deep waters of history with the present, and quixotic and ironic to its core. An immensely rewarding saga." Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

William T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and Rising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Vollman's writing has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, Esquire, Conjunctions, Granta, and many other magazines. He lives in California.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780140167177
Author:
Vollmann, William T.
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Author:
Vollmann, William
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Canada
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Iroquois indians
Subject:
Christian saints
Subject:
Jesuits
Subject:
Wyandot Indians.
Subject:
Literary
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes (Paperback)
Series Volume:
0002
Publication Date:
August 1993
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
1008
Dimensions:
8.45x5.49x1.79 in. 1.74 lbs.

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