The Absence of Angels: A Novel (Volume 14) (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series). Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press (edition First PB Edition, First Printing), 1995
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- Titel
- The Absence of Angels: A Novel (Volume 14) (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)
- Autor
- Penn, W. S.
- Verlag
- University of Oklahoma Press (edition First PB Edition, First Printing)
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 1995
- Zustand
- Very Good
- Einband
- Paperback
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 0806127147
- ISBN-13
- 9780806127149
- Auflage
- First PB Edition, First Printing.
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 grandfathers 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.
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