Verwandte Artikel zu The Absence of Angels: A Novel (American Indian Literature...

The Absence of Angels: A Novel (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies Series, Band 14) - Softcover

Penn, W. S.

 
9780806127149: The Absence of Angels: A Novel (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies Series, Band 14)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0806127147 ISBN 13: 9780806127149
Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

The narrator-protagonist of this magical novel about urban mixed-blood Indian life is Albert (Alley) Hummingbird, a self-conscious, shy college student who masks his feelings with humor and who longs to reconcile the two cultures that have formed him. Alley is not supposed to live at birth, but his grandfather, a Nez Perce, rescues him from Death (who reappears throughout the novel as a petty, mean, pathetic, and ultimately funny character). The grandfather’s teachings to Alley, which come from the afterlife region known as the "absence of angels," connect Alley to his Indian heritage when he needs it. Otherwise his life is fragmented: a father who rejected his heritage, a mother who is slightly mad, and a friend, Sara, with whom Alley is in love.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

W. S. Penn is a resident fiction writer and teacher of American Indian and Comparative Literature at Michigan State University.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

The narrator-protagonist of this magical novel about urban mixed-blood Indian life is Albert (Alley) Hummingbird, a self-conscious, shy college student who masks his feelings with humor and who longs to reconcile the two cultures that have formed him. Alley is not supposed to live at birth, but his grandfather, a Nez Perce, rescues him from Death (who reappears throughout the novel as a petty, mean, pathetic, and ultimately funny character). The grandfather's teachings to Alley, which come from the afterlife region known as the "absence of angels", connect Alley to his Indian heritage when he most needs it. Otherwise his life is fragmented: a father who rejected his heritage, a mother who is slightly mad, and a friend, Sara, with whom Alley is in love.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
University of Oklahoma Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0806127147
ISBN 13 
9780806127149
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
274
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
preigu
mail@preigu.de

Lengericher Landstr. 19
Osnabrück
49078
Deutschland