Wild Indians And Other Creatures (Western Literature Series)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.79 (976 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0874173035 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sassa Frass said Louis Is A Brilliant Writer!!. I had seen the movie "Skins" and instantly bought the novel on which it was based, then became an instant fan of Louis'. Why he is not a bestselling author is a mystery. He writes such PAGE TURNERS you can't put the damned book down! I could have read this, and almost did, in a few hours.His writing is very, very raw (a lot of. "A grim vision laced with laughter from the Rez ." according to Ronald Scheer. This collection of 2A grim vision laced with laughter from the Rez . This collection of 23 short stories is set almost entirely on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwest South Dakota and the border towns in the Nebraska panhandle. It is the harsh land of the high plains where the seasons are extreme and the lives of Indians balance conditions of poverty and racism against the love of family an. short stories is set almost entirely on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwest South Dakota and the border towns in the Nebraska panhandle. It is the harsh land of the high plains where the seasons are extreme and the lives of Indians balance conditions of poverty and racism against the love of family an. irreverent short stories weave together into beautiful whole Louis is angry and irreverent, but yet not offensive. It'a a very quick, enjoyable read. The short stories in this work touch on every issue you can imagine, mixing humans and anthropomorphic creatures against a graphic backdrop of contemporary reservation life. If you like Sherman ALexie, you'll love Louis!
Wild Indians & Other Creatures is a stunning book that will startle readers who harbor romantic notions of contemporary Native American life. Many more stories and lives are interwoven in these sometimes bawdy but always moving and memorable tales. Set on and around the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota, these unsettling, often politically incorrect stories almost function as a novel. Many are laugh-out-loud funny, while others are stark and sad, yet grimly human and powerful. Louis, one of the leading American Indian poets, presents an unblinking look at the social ills of reservation life while at the same time speaking of hope and survival for native peoples.. In these interrelated stories, most animals speak and most humans drink. A number of these irrelevant stories of Indian life are reworkings of traditional Trickster talescomplete with horny humanesque coyotes, randy ravens, and mystical bears - which transcend that form and become something new and arresting. In Wild Indians & Other Creatures, Adrian C
Alcohol, prostitution and self-hatred abound. Even in this world of human derelicts, however, there is hope and warmth. Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Obviously, these are not the romantic Indians of screen and popular fiction. These tricksters possess strong sexual appetites: in "Why Coyote Knotted His Whanger," Coyote ties the eponymous appendage into a knot because it has gotten him into trouble once too often. In "Auntie Angie's Cheyenne Affair," an aged woman, looking for her missing granddaughter, finds comfort and companionship with someone as wounded as herself. From Publishers Weekly Modern Native American life is the topic as Louis (Skins), a Paiute Indian and noted poet, joins a tradition of Native humor with a hard edge that runs from Alexander Posey straight to Sherman Alexie. Timmy
. Louis has won fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. Adrian C. His 2006 collection of poems, Logorrhea (Northwestern University Press), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. From 1984-1997, Louis taugh