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Title: Winter in the Blood (Contemporary American Fiction Series) by James Welch ISBN: 0-14-008644-7 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A book of sorrows, comedy, and joy
Comment: James Welch is probably Montana's foremost Native American writer, and this wonderful novella is evidence of considerable talent. Published 30 years ago (1974), it takes place in the shadow that was cast by the nation's approaching bicentennial. While neither bitter nor angry, it manages anyway to portray a country that has little to show for itself but "greed and stupidity." The values it embraces are finally those available to every American, native or otherwise - compassion and respect for life and the living.
The story concerns a few days in the life of a 32-year-old man, descendant of Indians and living in two worlds, his mother's home on the reservation and the dreary bars and hotels of nearby Havre and Malta, Montana. His days and nights blending together in an alcoholic haze, he meets a deranged white man, picks up women and gets punched in the nose. Meanwhile, he is haunted by a past that includes the death of an older brother and an injury to his knee that multiple operations have not remedied. Out of these unpromising circumstances, Welch finds the beginnings of a kind of personal salvation. By reaching back through the memory of a blind old man's act of charity, he restores the younger man's vision of himself.
Among the ranks of modern Native American writers, such as Louise Erdrich, Welch opens up a world for non-Indian readers that goes well beyond the usual stereotypes. His Indians are strikingly individual, absorbed in the everyday, motivated as much by self-interest and cock-eyed notions as their white counterparts. In Welch's hands, a conversation among five of them can be as comic and absurd as Ionesco. Meanwhile, the Native American past is there to ground a person with a sense of purpose and identity. For all its sorrows, Welch's story is finally a joy to read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Winter in the Blood
Comment: Winter in the Blood was a good piece of Montana literature. It told a believable story of the life of a man living on the Blackfoot Reservation. It was interesting to read about how his brother and father died and how he ended up living there. The things that happened to him were interesting too. Like how he could go all the way to Havre just to find a woman who stole a couple things of his. The downside of the book was that it's kind of slow in some spots but not so much spots that the book just makes you want to stop reading it.
Rating: 4
Summary: My rewview of Winter in the Blood
Comment: Winter in the Blood was a good piece of Montana literature. It told a believable story of the life of a man living on the Blackfoot Reservation. It was interesting to read about how his brother and father died and how he ended up living there. The things that happened to him were interesting too. Like how he could go all the way to Havre just to find a woman who stole a couple things of his. The downside of the book was that it's kind of slow in some spots but not so much spots that the book just makes you want to stop reading it.
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Title: Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction) by James Welch ISBN: 0140089373 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians by James Welch, Paul Stekler ISBN: 0140251766 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Heartsong of Charging Elk : A Novel by James Welch ISBN: 0385496753 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch ISBN: 0140102914 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko ISBN: 0140086838 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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