The power of horses and other stories
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The power of horses and other stories
(Sun tracks, v. 56)
University of Arizona Press, 2006
- : pbk
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収録内容
- Maḣpiyato
- Loss of the sky
- A visit from Reverend Tileston
- A family matter
- La Deaux
- Last days of a squaw man
- The cure
- The clearest blue day
- The power of horses
- Going home
- Flight
- A firm and continuous desire
- A child's story
- A good chance
- Bennie
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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-Lynn's 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 dogprimordial to the Dakota?competes unwittingly with Reverend Tileston's 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 , ccidentally shot and killed in the white man's 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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