Un classico della letteratura, opera del più importante scrittore nativo americano. Dimenticato qui da noi, 'L'ultimo giorno di Jim Loney' è il capolavoro di Welch: uno sguardo unico sul mondo dei nativi, condannati dal destino e relegati ai margini della società. Una prosa scarna e toccante, un romanzo sulla perdita dei propri diritti e sull'autodistruzione. Jim Loney è un sangue misto. Respinto dal padre bianco e incapace di riscoprire le origini della madre nativa americana, Loney è estraneo a entrambe le comunità e conduce un'esistenza solitaria in una cittadina del Montana. Preda di sogni inquietanti, Loney è perseguitato dalle visioni di un nero uccello di malaugurio. Nonostante i suoi tormenti, Jim è un giovane gradevole e non fatica a conquistarsi l'affetto di coloro che lo circondano, non riuscendo tuttavia a ricambiare le offerte di amicizia e di amore. Rhea, la sua ragazza, non può consolarlo e Kate, sua sorella, non riesce a farsi strada nel suo mondo. Si ritrova così costretto ad affrontare un viaggio interiore che potrebbe condurlo o alla scoperta di sé o all'autodistruzione.' Prefazione di Jim Harrison.

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"Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination contains nine bloodcurdling tales by the author who is widely regarded as the father of Japanese mystery writing and Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe. The chilling stories in this book present a genre of literature largely unknown to readers outside Japan and combine the quick tempo of Western fiction with the rich fantasy of the East. These spine-tingling tales include the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confessions of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders; and the bizarre tale of a chair-maker who buries himself inside an armchair and enjoysthe sordid "loves" of the women who sit on his handiwork. Lucid and packed with suspense, the stories of Edogawa Rampo have enthralled Japanese readers for over half a century"--

This book is the first comparative study of lived Utopian communities in antiquity. It is a sweeping examination of such enterprises from the sixth century BC to the sixth century AD that carries the readers through a vast array of sources and concepts.

Tackling head-on the most controversial and debated 'what if' in U.S. foreign policy, this provocative work explores what President John F. Kennedy would have done in Vietnam had he not been assassinated in 1963. Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified documents, frank oral testimony of White House officials from both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the analysis of top historians, this book presents compelling evidence that JFK was ready to end U.S. involvement well before the conflict escalated. With vivid immediacy, readers will feel they are in the president's war room as the debates raged that forever changed the course of American history_and continue to affect us profoundly as the shadows of Vietnam stretch into Iraq.

James Welch never shied away from depicting the lives of Native Americans damned by destiny and temperament to the margins of society. The Death of Jim Loney is no exception. Jim Loney is a mixed-blood, of white and Indian parentage. Estranged from both communities, he lives a solitary, brooding existence in a small Montana town. His nights are filled with disturbing dreams that haunt his waking hours. Rhea, his lover, cannot console him; Kate, his sister, cannot penetrate his world. In sparse, moving prose, Welch has crafted a riveting tale of disenfranchisement and selfdestruction.

Two contemporary classics from a major writer of the Native American renaissance

During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works. The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his once proud heritage, and MontanaÂ's vast emptiness. Winter in the Blood is an evocative and unforgettable work of literature that will continue to move and inspire anyone who encounters it.

Sylvester Yellow Calf is a former reservation basketball star, a promising young lawyer, and a possible congressional candidate. But when a parolee ensnares him in a blackmail scheme, he'll have to decide just who he is, and what he wants.

This historic and personal work tells the Native American side of Custer's fabled attack, poignantly revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the "victors," the last great gathering of Plains Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull.

Now with an introduction from celebrated poet James Tate, Riding the Earthboy 40 is the only volume of poetry written by acclaimed Native American novelist James Welch. The title of the book refers to the forty acres of Montana land WelchÂ's father once leased from a Blackfeet family called Earthboy. This land and its surroundings shaped the writerÂ's worldview as a youth, its rawness resonates in the vitality of his elegant poetry, and his verse shows a great awareness of a moment in time, of a place in nature, and of the human being in context. Deeply evoking the specific Native American experience in Montana, WelchÂ's poems nonetheless speak profoundly to all readers. With its new introduction, this vital work that has influenced so many American writers is certain to capture a new generation of readers.

From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow, a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination.

Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of nineteenth-century Marseille. Left behind in a Marseille hospital after a serious injury while the show travels on, he is forced to remake his life alone in a strange land. He struggles to adapt as well as he can, while holding on to the memories and traditions of life on the Plains and eventually falling in love. But none of the worlds the Indian has known can prepare him for the betrayal that follows. This is a story of the American Indian that we have seldom seen: a stranger in a strange land, often an invisible man, loving, violent, trusting, wary, protective, and defenseless against a society that excludes him but judges him by its rules. At once epic and intimate, The Heartsong of Charging Elk echoes across time, geography, and cultures.

Fitzgerald's photographs are accompanied with text by rancher and environmental writer Linda Hasselstrom and short quotations from others. Together they depict the animals in their habitat and trace their past, their decline during the 19th century, and current efforts to revive the population. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.