The Absence of Angels - Hardcover

The Absence of Angels

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. SIGNED and warmly inscribed ("For ______, who's words mean so much to me. Thank you, Best alwaysBill Pen") in black ink on title page. 274 pp. Octavo [22 cm]. Purple cloth over boards. Includes letter to recipient of the inscription, signed by Bill Pen. "This magical novel about urban mixed-blood Indian life has as its narrator-protagonist Albert (Alley) Hummingbird, a self-conscious, overweight, shy college student who hides his feelings with humor and who longs to reconcile the two cultures that have formed him.In the oral irreverent manner of Nez Perce storytelling, W.S. Penn's novel spirals outward as Alley shuffles between Second Mesa and Los Angeles between school, family, men and women, life and death until the reader is convinced that everything isas his grandfather believesconnected like dandelions."-from front dj flap. Artikel-Nr. 71011

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