The Power of Horses and Other Stories: Volume 56 Paperback - 2006
by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
From the jacket flap
The fifteen stories contained in The Power of Horses portray, each in a different way, the sensitive and enduring culture of the Dakota of the Upper Plains and convey many of the basic truths that have sustained Elizabeth Cook-Lynnas people for countless generations. Though the stories are often filled with violence and grief, they are also brimming with beauty, gentleness, charm, and humor. In these striking and memorable tales of Dakota country, Joseph grieves that the body of his middle son will never be returned to his native shores from the distant World War I battlefields where he was killed; family members gather to bury their father and barely survive their own weaknesses and bickering; a grandmother takes her grandchild for a walk and imparts to the child some of the old wisdom of times past; a whining hound dogaprimordial to the Dakotaacompetes unwittingly with Reverend Tilestonas efforts to bring the word of the Christian God to a tight-knit family, and wins; Magpie is a poet but is also on parole, and just as his friends have begun to rethink the finality of justice, he is aaccidentallya shot and killed in the white manas jail. Cook-Lynn writes unsparingly yet compassionately of reservation life in the last century. In each of these gemlike stories she reveals something of the mystery and essential toughness of the Dakota people.
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- Title The Power of Horses and Other Stories: Volume 56
- Author Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arizona Press
- Date 2006-02
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780816525508 / 0816525501
- Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.54 x 0.32 in (21.59 x 14.07 x 0.81 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress subjects Dakota Indians
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005026388
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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