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Owens, Louis
by Bone Game
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0806126647
- ISBN 13
- 9780806126647
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About This Item
Norman. 1994. University Of Oklahoma Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0806126647. 243 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration - 'Melting retreat' by Veloy Vigil. Jacket design by Cathy Carney Imboden. keywords: Literature American Indian . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In Bone Game, Louis Owens's compelling new novel, dreams and waking life, past and present, ghosts and living people echo each other and lock in conflict. From the moment we read that a Spanish priest was murdered in 1812 and that the dismembered pieces of a young woman are beginning to wash ashore in 1993 - both in Santa Cruz - we know that something is profoundly wrong in the too-beautiful California town. Cole McCurtain is at Bone Game's uneasy, dreaming center. Now a mixed-blood professor of Indian Studies at Santa Cruz, Cole is haunted by dreams of the murdered priest, a rearing grizzly bear, a black-and-white painted Indian who offers bones in his extended hands. In his waking life Cole moves through scenes equally discordant and sinister. Surrounded by decadent students, an overly earnest teaching assistant, and a cross-dressing, wisecracking Indian colleague, he longs to be back in New Mexico, fly-fishing. Help comes from Indian country when his beloved daughter Abby appears at his doorstep. Even so, the dreams become increasingly urgent and the murders ever more frequent. Added support is mobilized. Choctaw oldtimers - Cole's father, Hoey, his great-uncle, Luther, and an old medicine woman, Onatima - travel west from Mississippi, becoming entangled in further stories along the way. They know they are needed; as Luther says, 'This story's so big, Cole sees only a little bit of it.' inventory #23293 ISBN: 0806126647.
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- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Owens, Louis
- Author
- Bone Game
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0806126647
- ISBN 13
- 9780806126647
- Publisher
- University Of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman, Ok
- This edition first published
- 1994-10
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