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The dying grass : a novel of the Nez Perce War / William T. Vollmann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Seven dreams, a book of North American landscapes ; fifth dream | Vollmann, William T. Seven dreams ; v. 5.Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0670015989
  • 9780670015986
Other title:
  • Fifth dream, The dying grass [Added title page title]
Subject(s):
Contents:
List of Maps -- Grass-Texts: A Speech and a Report (1877-78) -- The Dying Grass -- I. Indian Service (1805-77) -- II. Edisto (1862-74) -- III. The Burial of Lieutenant Theller (June 1877) -- IV. I Am Flying Up (June-July 1877) -- V. The Rest of My Days (July-August 1877) -- VI. Very Beautiful and Almost Automatic (August-September 1877) -- VII. Detached Pictures (September-October 1877) -- VIII. I Raised My Eyes (1877--78) -- IX. The Americans Are Your Friends (1877-1904) -- Dinosaurs and Cycads (1878-2013) -- A Chronology of the Seven Ages of Wineland: V. The Age of Dying Grass -- Glossaries -- 1. Glossary of Personal Names -- 2. Glossary of Orders, Isms, Nations, Professions, Hierarchies, Divisions, Races, Shamans, Tribes and Monsters -- 3. Glossary of Places -- 4. Glossary of Texts -- 5. Glossary of Calendars, Currencies, Forms, Legalisms and Measures -- 6. General Glossary -- Orthographic Notes -- Sources [and a Few Notes] -- Acknowledgments
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Vollmann William SD 5 Available 33111008035343
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The reading experience of a lifetime ..."-- The Washington Post

The National Book Award winner takes readers inside the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians 

In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann's main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer.

Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an original style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, The Dying Grass is another mesmerizing achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time.

Title from jacket cover and spine. Added title page with title (missing subtitle).

Includes bibliographical references.

List of Maps -- Grass-Texts: A Speech and a Report (1877-78) -- The Dying Grass -- I. Indian Service (1805-77) -- II. Edisto (1862-74) -- III. The Burial of Lieutenant Theller (June 1877) -- IV. I Am Flying Up (June-July 1877) -- V. The Rest of My Days (July-August 1877) -- VI. Very Beautiful and Almost Automatic (August-September 1877) -- VII. Detached Pictures (September-October 1877) -- VIII. I Raised My Eyes (1877--78) -- IX. The Americans Are Your Friends (1877-1904) -- Dinosaurs and Cycads (1878-2013) -- A Chronology of the Seven Ages of Wineland: V. The Age of Dying Grass -- Glossaries -- 1. Glossary of Personal Names -- 2. Glossary of Orders, Isms, Nations, Professions, Hierarchies, Divisions, Races, Shamans, Tribes and Monsters -- 3. Glossary of Places -- 4. Glossary of Texts -- 5. Glossary of Calendars, Currencies, Forms, Legalisms and Measures -- 6. General Glossary -- Orthographic Notes -- Sources [and a Few Notes] -- Acknowledgments

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