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Green grass, running water

Strong, sassy women and hard-luck, hard-headed men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by award-winning author Thomas King. Alberta, Eli, Lionel and others are coming to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance. There they will encounter four Indian elders and their companion, the trickster Coyote'and nothing in the small town of Blossom will be the same again. . . .</

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  • "Very different lives nevertheless continually cross. Alberta, a university professor who wants a child but not a marriage, is involved with two men who seem to represent opposite possibilities: Charlie, a flashy lawyer, and Lionel, a self-effacing TV salesman. Latisha, Lionel's sister, runs the Dead Dog Cafe, a local hangout and tourist trap. And then there's Eli, who moved to the city and its white man's establishment, never intending to look back to Blossom or the."
  • "Reservation's ancient way of life. All the while, four old Indians, escapees from a mental institution, drift mysteriously and hilariously in and out of time, from the beginnings of the universe to its undecided future. Wildly combining Native American and Western spiritual traditions in the stories they tell, they attempt to recreate and reorder the world. And the trickster Coyote follows along, wreaking havoc as he prowls through the novel. This is a rich tale, weaving."
  • "A magical realism novel by Cherokee author Thomas King in which four Indian elders and the trickster Coyote change the lives of several individuals who come to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance."
  • "Strong, sassy women and hard-luck, hard-headed men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by award-winning author Thomas King. Alberta, Eli, Lionel and others are coming to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance. There they will encounter four Indian elders and their companion, the trickster Coyote'and nothing in the small town of Blossom will be the same again. . . .</"@en
  • "A Blossom, petite ville de l'Alberta (Canada), vivent un professeur d'université qui voudrait un enfant sans se marier, Alberta, un avocat ambitieux, Charlie le Flambeur, un vendeur de télés, Lionel, sa soeur Latisha, qui tient le Dead dog café, et Eli qui habite en pleine nature dans une cabane en rondins. Lionel prend en stop quatre vieillards qui lui manifestent un intérêt particulier ..."
  • "Strong, sassyt women and hard-luck, hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and athe modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approch and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by the Cherokee author."@en
  • "Searching for the middle ground between the modern world and Native American traditions, three people come together on a Blackfoot reserve to celebrate the Sun Dance."@en
  • "Subtle, magical humor, revisionist history, muted nostalgia, and sacred humanity into one bright, whole cloth."
  • "Strong, sassy women and hard-luck, hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance."@en
  • "A great human drama is played out from a Blackfoot reservation to Hollywood while the mythical trickster, Coyote, watches from the sidelines, playfully manipulating events."@en
  • "When Medicine River was published in 1990, the New York Times said of Thomas King, "He knows his territory. His first novel is economical, precise, and elegant." Now King returns with his totally fresh voice - carefully controlled, yet without artifice - to present a complex web of character, myth, folklore, and contemporary and universal experience. Green Grass, Running Water is the story of five Blackfoot Indians in the town of Blossom and its nearby reserve, whose."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fantastic fiction"
  • "Roman canadien de langue anglaise"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Prospectuses"@en
  • "Powieść kanadyjska w języku angielskim"
  • "Fantasy fiction"@en
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Fantasy fiction"

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  • "Green grass, running water"
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  • "Green Grass Running Water"
  • "Sve dok je trava zelena i vode teku"
  • "Green Grass, Running Water"
  • "Green grass, running water : a new novel"
  • "Green grass, running water : a novel"
  • "Green grass running water"
  • "L'herbe verte, l'eau vive : roman"
  • "Green grass, running water : [the New York novel]"
  • "Wenn Coyote tanzt : Roman"

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