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Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1995
ISBN 10: 0807119008ISBN 13: 9780807119006
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In The Novels of William Styron, Gavin Cologne-Brookes presents the first comprehensive study of William Styron's work. Using the concept of narrative evolution, he illumines not only Styron's novels but also an entire genre.Drawing on the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and Georg Lukacs, Cologne-Brookes acknowledges previous Styron criticism - with its emphasis on Freudian, existentialist, and southern concerns - but offers new perspectives on Styron's importance. He considers Styron not so much a southern writer as one whose influences include southern roots.Critically incisive and entirely convincing, The Novels of William Styron will prove to be an essential book for Styron scholars, students of his work, and anyone with an interest in contemporary writing. In arguing that this important novelist's work becomes more significant as it becomes more historically involved, Cologne-Brookes also addresses the vital questions of where, when, and how the novel form is important.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1985
ISBN 10: 0807112100ISBN 13: 9780807112106
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Echeverria, Durrand, Echeverria, Durand.
Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0807114979ISBN 13: 9780807114971
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Merrill, John C.
Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0807118915ISBN 13: 9780807118917
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 3. C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience. First published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of students. This updated third edition contains a chapter, "Look Away, Look Away," in which Woodward finds a plethora of additional ironies in the South's experience. It also includes previously uncollected appreciations of Robert Penn Warren, to whom the book was originally dedicated, and William Faulkner. This edition also features a new foreword by historian William E. Leuchtenburg in which he recounts the events that led up to Woodward's writing The Burden of Southern History, and reflects on the book's -- and Woodward's -- place in the study of southern history. The Burden of Southern History is quintessential Woodward -- wise, witty, ruminative, daring, and as alive in the twenty-first century as when it was written.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0807119989ISBN 13: 9780807119983
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This classic report originally appeared as a series of articles in the Nation between July 8, 1865, and April 11, 1866. Dennett traveled in seven states-Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi-at the very beginning of Reconstruction. His remarkably prophetic account of the recently defeated South is a major source for the history of this transition.
Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0807116564ISBN 13: 9780807116562
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Hyman, Michael R., Anti-Redeemers, Hill-Country Political Dissenters In The Low.
Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1990
ISBN 10: 0807116165ISBN 13: 9780807116166
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Gathers jazz-inspired stories by James Baldwin, Donald Barthelme, Shelby Foote, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Leonard Feather and Eudora Welty.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1971
ISBN 10: 0807104450ISBN 13: 9780807104453
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. In Autumn of Glory, the final volume of Thomas Lawrence Connelly's definitive history of one of the Confederacy's two major military forces, Professor Connelly analyzes the factors underlying the army's failure during the last two years of the Civil War.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0807128287ISBN 13: 9780807128282
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Enhanced by 144 color photographs, offers a natural history of the alligator, including coverage of research, regulation, tourism, trapping, and alligator/human encounters.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0807122602ISBN 13: 9780807122600
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Softcover. Condition: Good. "The Testimony of Simone Weil," the first of the four long poems that form Kate Daniels' new collection, gives voice to the radical French political thinker and religious philosopher. Here Weil meditates on some of the most famous images by Eugene Atget, the acclaimed documentary photographer who recorded a perishing Old Paris.Three survivors of the collapse of the Nimitz Freeway in the 1989 San Francisco earthquake tell of the calamity and its aftermath in the narrative poem "In the Marvelous Dimension."Echoing the Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone, "The Smash-Up" centers on a divorced woman and the sufferings of her grown daughter, whose husband has just committed suicide. In this poem, Daniels ruminates on marriage, sexuality, inherited behavior, and spousal abuse and portrays a mother's guilt at failing her offspring."Portrait of the Artist as Mother," twenty poems that compose the final sequence of the collection, finds new life and second chances, exploring the difficulties of motherhood as well as its bounties. Daniels artfully contemplates the obstacles involved in maintaining one's identity as a writer and as a woman while confronting the challenges of motherhood.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1985
ISBN 10: 0807111856ISBN 13: 9780807111857
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Literary criticism, southern literary studies.
Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1997
ISBN 10: 0807121614ISBN 13: 9780807121610
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Revised. "To grow up a boy in Clarksville in my time, " recalls the narrator of The Ordways, "was to be a double dreamer." For Clarksville, Texas, was where the Old South met the frontier West and family history retold at the annual graveyard working day provided the stuff to fuel a young imagination. Here, then, is the story of Thomas Ordway, the narrator's great-grandfather, who was blinded at Shiloh and moved his family from Tennessee to Texas. Here, too, is the saga of his grandfather, Sam Ordway, who scoured the vast land of Texas in futile search of his three-year-old son, stolen by his neighbor in 1898. "Little Ned, " that lost, legendary uncle, grew up in the narrator's mind to be now a rancher, now a lonely wrangler, now a good-hearted rustler.
Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2024
ISBN 10: 0807126829ISBN 13: 9780807126820
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Print. Photography Research and Editing by Jo Jackson and Mary J. Hebert. Foreword by Mark A. Emmert, Chancellor. Preface by Laura F. Lindsay and J. Michael Desmond, for the University Commission on the History of LSU. Nestled on a picturesque spot near the banks of the Mississippi River, Louisiana State University is a photographer's dream. From the red pantile roofs and honey-colored stucco of its Italian Renaissance architecture to the "stately oaks and broad magnolias" hailed in the alma mater, the distinct beauty of the campus is unrivaled. Few, however, realize that the history of the state's flagship university is as colorful as the azaleas that adorn its landscape every spring. Through an entertaining marriage of photographs and text, Under Stately Oaks showcases over 140 years of LSU's past and follows the evolution of the tiny Seminary of Learning of the State of Louisiana, founded near Pineville in 1853, into a university of well over thirty thousand students for the twenty-first century.Thomas A. Ruffin sets the images in historical context and offers fascinating information that will enlighten even the most ardent LSU fan. From the first LSU students in 1860 to the 75th anniversary celebrations of the current Baton Rouge campus in 2001, Under Stately Oaks captures the spirit of the university as never before.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1986
ISBN 10: 0807112704ISBN 13: 9780807112700
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Farley Stokes, a Korean War veteran, tries to build a new life for himself as a farmer in the rural area where he grew up.
Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1964
ISBN 10: 0807108227ISBN 13: 9780807108222
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. Brief sketches reveal the personalities, background and careers of the nearly six hundred men who attained the rank of general in the Union Army.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0807120197ISBN 13: 9780807120194
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. "The only merit of this book - and I insist on it - is that it is true, true from beginning to end. And this, you see, is definitely something!" So writes Andre Rougeyron in the Preface of his memoir, displaying a hint of the passion that undoubtedly accounted for his heroism in France and Germany during World War II - and displaying too his own modest self-regard. His chronicle of the years spent rescuing downed Allied airmen in France and consequently enduring German labor camps remains focused throughout on others. A myriad of individuals - both named and unnamed - and their sufferings and triumphs small and large suffuse his story.His portrait of Normandy under occupation and his descriptions of life and death in the labor camps add important new information to current understanding of how French resisters and the camps operated. Equally significant and also fascinating is his evocation of people from diverse backgrounds brought together under unbearably trying circumstances.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1997
ISBN 10: 0807122181ISBN 13: 9780807122181
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Softcover. Condition: Good. St. John Richardson Liddell (1815--1870), a conspicuous combat leader in the Army of Tennessee, was an important eyewitness to the making of history. A prominent Louisiana planter, he also served on the staffs of P.G.T. Beauregard, William J. Hardee, and Albert Sidney Johnston during the conflict and traveled in the upper circles of the Confederate military and political high command. In 1866, disillusioned and embittered by defeat, Liddell penned his memoirs for his sons. More than a description of his wartime experiences, Liddell's Record is one man's judgment on why the Confederacy failed, offering blunt, often harsh criticisms of Confederate leadership and fellow soldiers rarely found in such personal accounts.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0807120081ISBN 13: 9780807120088
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Spinning the raucous tale of four restless sons of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Hannah introduces the reader to a pretty-boy international tennis star, his devoted manager, his gay coach, and a shell-shocked but sane Vietnam vet. Their adventures include rape by a walrus, murder by crossbow, and a tennis tournament played at gunpoint. Hannah's inventiveness sparkles and his prose shines.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0807120332ISBN 13: 9780807120330
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Many people continue to believe that the Civil War ended with Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, yet it took three more months to end the bloodiest of all American wars. Out of the Storm is a remarkable portrait of this turbulent closing phase of the war. Photos.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0807130796ISBN 13: 9780807130797
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Perhaps not southerners in the usual sense, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson each demonstrated a political style and philosophy that helped them influence the South and unite the country in ways that few other presidents have. Combining vivid biography and political insight, William E. Leuchtenburg offers an engaging account of relations between these three presidents and the South while also tracing how the region came to embrace a national perspective without losing its distinctive sense of place.According to Leuchtenburg, each man "had one foot below the Mason-Dixon Line, one foot above." Roosevelt, a New Yorker, spent much of the last twenty-five years of his life in Warm Springs, Georgia, where he built a "Little White House." Truman, a Missourian, grew up in a pro-Confederate town but one that also looked West because of its history as the entrept for the Oregon Trail. Johnson, who hailed from the former Confederate state of Texas, was a westerner as much as a southerner.Their intimate associations with the South gave these three presidents an empathy toward and acceptance in the region. In urging southerners to jettison outworn folkways, Roosevelt could speak as a neighbor and adopted son, Truman as a borderstater who had been taught to revere the Lost Cause, and Johnson as a native who had been scorned by Yankees. Leuchtenburg explores in fascinating detail how their unique attachment to "place" helped them to adopt shifting identities, which proved useful in healing rifts between North and South, in altering behavior in regard to race, and in fostering southern economic growth.The White House Looks South is the monumental work of a master historian. At a time when race, class, and gender dominate historical writing, Leuchtenburg argues that place is no less significant. In a period when America is said to be homogenized, he shows that sectional distinctions persist. And in an era when political history is devalued, he demonstrates that government can profoundly affect peoples lives and that presidents can be change-makers.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1989
ISBN 10: 080711488XISBN 13: 9780807114889
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Although many Indian nations fought in the Civil War, historians have given little attention to the role Native Americans played in the conflict. Indian nations did, in fact, suffer a higher percentage of casualties than any Union or Confederate state, and the war almost destroyed the Cherokee Nation. In The Confederate Cherokees, W. Craig Gaines provides an absorbing account of the Cherokees' involvement in the early years of the Civil War, focusing in particular on the actions of one group, John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles.As the war began, The Cherokees were torn by internal political dissension and a simmering thirty-year-old blood feud. Entry into the war on the Confederate side did little to resolve these intratribal tensions. One faction, loyal to Chief John Ross, formed a regiment led by John Drew, Ross's nephew by marriage. Another regiment was formed by Ross's rival, Stand Watie. The Watie regiment was largely por-Confederate, whereas many of Drew's soldiers, though fighting for the Confederate cause, were secretly members of a pro-Union, antislavery society known as the Keetoowahs. They had little sympathy for the southern whites, who had driven them from their ancestral homelands in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Drew's regiment nonetheless earned a degree of infamy during the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, for scalping Union soldiers.Gaines writes not only about the actions of Drew's regiment but about military events in the Indian Territory in general. United action was almost impossible because of continuing factionalism within the tribes and the desertion of many Indians to the Union forces. Desertion was so high that Drew's regiment was effectively disbanded by mid-1862, and the soldiers did not complete their one-year enlistment. Drew's regiment bears the distinction of being the only Confederate regiment to lose almost its entire membership through desertion to the Union ranks.Gaines's solidly researched, ground-breaking history of this ill-fated band of Cherokees will be of interest to Civil War buffs and students of Native American history alike.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0807116483ISBN 13: 9780807116487
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition ~1st Printing. Tells of the life and career of swing era jazz trumpeter Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (1908-1941) and the substantial impact he had on music during his short life. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1985
ISBN 10: 0807112720ISBN 13: 9780807112724
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Renaming The Streets, John Stone's third book of poems, is a work that speaks to the future but remains mindful of the endless intersections of the past and the present. Stone writes about the human experience in all its seasons.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0807106577ISBN 13: 9780807106570
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st. A spectacular, Pultizer Prize-winning novel by a master of comedy, beloved by readers and critics alike. The place is the French Quarter, the characters, denizens of New Orleans's lower depths.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0807112690ISBN 13: 9780807112694
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Beehler, Michael.
Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1992
ISBN 10: 080711717XISBN 13: 9780807117170
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. New Orleans--born Stanhope Bayne-Jones was one of the pivotal figures in the modernization of American medicine. Through his life story Albert E. Cowdrey's War and Healing dramatizes the growth of American medicine from a provincial and amateurish state into a major national endeavor.Cowdrey shows the diversity and wide-ranging impact of Bayne-Jones's career. A brilliant student at Johns Hopkins, and a protégé of William Welch, bayne-Jones became in turn dean of Yale Medical School, a foundation head, a general in the army's Medical Corps, president of the New York Hospital--Cornell Medical Center, director of the army's medical research program, and a member of the Surgeon General's Commission on Smoking and Health.Both a unique and a representative figure, Bayne-Jones learned from his military experience in two wars that the fundamental business of medicine is health, not disease, and became a strong advocate for preventive medicine. He developed a broad, idealized conception of the future of medicine as a discipline free of political control, organized collectively, devoted to the preservation of health, and divorced from entrepreneurial passions.Bayne-Jones was a complex, fascinating man and physician. Gifted with great intelligence and considerable charm, he spent much of his life in the Ivy League, the halls of government, and the great northeastern cities. Cowdrey explores the tensions between Bayne-Jones's southern roots and national aspirations, between his deep commitment to his family and heritage and his restless, driving ambition. Bayne-Jones's career forms still another chapter, logical and yet unexpected, in the family saga that will be familiar to many readers through The Children of Pride.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0807107166ISBN 13: 9780807107164
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. This book is a five phase examination of Wallace Stevens' poetry and poetic poetic self-discovery; concern for the role of the poet in the collectivistic and de-humanized society of the 1930's; focus of the centrality of poetry in the individual's struggle to retain self-identity in a sterile mass society; the intellectual period of the 1940's; and the meditative poetry of Stevens' last years.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1967
ISBN 10: 0807104043ISBN 13: 9780807104040
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Most of the Civil War was fought on Southern soil. The responsibility for defending the Confederacy rested with two great military forces. One of these armies defended the "heartland" of the Confederacy--a vital area which embraced the state of Tennessee and large portions of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Kentucky.<br /><br />This is the story of that army--the first detailed study to be based upon research in manuscript collections and the first to explore the military significance of the heartland.<br /><br />The Army of Tennessee faced problems and obstacles far more staggering than any encountered by the other great Confederate force, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Lee's army was charged with the defense of an area considerably smaller in size. And while Lee's line of defense extended only about 125 miles, the front defended by the Army of Tennessee stretched some 400 miles.<br /><br />Yet the <i>Army of the Heartland</i> has heretofore been given relatively slight attention by historians. With this volume Professor Connelly, a native Tennesseean, has brought Confederate military history more nearly into balance.<br /><br />Throughout the war the Army of Tennessee was plagued by ineffective leadership. There were personality conflicts between commanding generals and corps commanders and breakdowns in communications with the Confederate government at Richmond. Lacking the leadership of a Lee, the Army of Tennessee failed to attain a real <i>esprit</i> at the corps level. Instead, the common soldiers, sensing the quarrelsome nature of their leaders, developed at regimental and brigade levels their own peculiar brand of morale which sustained them through continuous defeats.<br /><br />Professor Connelly analyzes the influence and impact of each successive commander of the Army. His conclusions regarding Confederate command and leadership are not the conventional ones.
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Published by Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1995
ISBN 10: 0807119946ISBN 13: 9780807119945
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In selecting this dazzling first collection of poems as winner of the 1994 Walt Whitman Award, Robert Pinsky praised Jan Richman for the "rowdy, restless intelligence" of her work. Indeed, all of the poems in Because the Brain Can Be Talked Into Anything are the result of a compulsive, unflinching inquisitiveness - a desire to make some sense of modern life by scrutinizing the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in our world.Ultimately, among the surprising turns of language, the hard edges and twisted aphorisms of an outspoken narrator, the sense of personal history re-emerges as haunting and essential. The book offers no formula for self-knowledge; it winnows and rummages and, finally, finds truth in irony. This satiric/sincere dualism comes brilliantly through in "Why I'm the Boss".As in all Richman's poems, the wise-cracking, urban-hip tone gives way to an extremely personal world view, and the raw emotional underpinnings are finally revealed. These poems announce a fresh and powerful new voice.
Published by Brand: Louisiana State University Press, 1985
ISBN 10: 0807112844ISBN 13: 9780807112847
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a painter and a loner, convinced that "to care for anything is to invite disaster." Her isolation is disrupted one day when a six-year-old mute boy, Simon, breaks into her house. The sole survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, Simon has been adopted by a widower Maori factory worker, Joe Gillayley, who is both tender and horribly brutal toward the boy. Through shifting points of view, the novel reveals each character's thoughts and feelings as they struggle with the desire to connect and the fear of attachment.
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