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Yellow Raft in Blue Water
by Michael Dorris
ISBN: 0312421850
ISBN-13: 9780312421854
Format: Paperback
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Summary
A novel that works its way backwards from the 1980s to the 1950s to tell the stories of three generations of women.
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"An unforgettable portrait of Native Americans."
-- Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.)
"Three portraits of remarkable psychological density...each of these women speaks to us directly; and together their voices form a chorus echoing through four decades of family history."
-- New York Times
"An absolutely wonderful book: 'Yellow Raft in Blue Water' is a priceless contribution to American literature, and I hope Michael Dorris keeps writing forever." -- Gloria Naylor
"Michael Dorris is a professor of anthropology...and in his first novel he realizes one of the extravagant dreams of anthropology-to describe a dying culture almost as if you were dying with it...It doesn't matter that there's little conventional plot...The real movement of the book lies in the way the three versions of their story comment on and chime with one another." -- Anatole Broyard
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Picador USA
Published date: 2003
Size: 5.25 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.7 pounds
Pages: 384
Publisher's Notes
Follows three generations of Indian women beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably bound together by the indissoluble bonds of kinship.
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
Dorris, Michael
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Michael Dorris
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Dorris, Michael
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