Sorrow of the Earth: Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Tragedy of Show Business

A swift and engrossing postmodern interrogation of the brutal cost of manufacturing myth... an attempt to see a fraction of the story of native North America more honestly than that story has been seen in decades and centuries past New Statesman This remarkable book comes from an angry man, wielding his pen with great skill... This powerful story, blending the grand sweep of history with everyday detail, images with text, personal reflections with brute facts, and poetry with prose, makes us reconsider our own relationship with history La Croix A short and scintillating book Le Soir One of our finest writers Le Nouvel observateur A great book... Vuillard forges a sensitive and gripping tale from one of American history's most well-known stories: how a nation was built on a lie, transforming a massacre into a battle, inventing show business and substituting carnival for history. It is simple and moving, incisive and poetic -- Francois Busnel Lire An astonishing work... With chapters that are as brief as they are gripping Lire One of the jewels of the literary season Le Figaro Magazine