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Fathers and Crows: Volume Two of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes Paperback - 2000

by William T. Vollmann


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With the same panoramic vision and mythic sensibility he brought to The Ice-Shirt, William T. Vollmann continues his hugely original fictional history of the clash of Indians and Europeans in the New World. It is 400 years ago, and the ?Black Gowns,? French Jesuit priests, are beginning their descent into the forests of Canada, eagerly seeking to convert the Huron--and courting martyrdom at the hands of the rival Iroquois. Through the eyes of these vastly different peoples--particularly through those of the grimly pious Father Jean de Brebeuf and the Indian prophetess Born Underwater--Vollmann reconstructs America?s past as tragedy, nightmare, and bloody spectacle. In the process, he does nothing less than reinvent the American novel as well.

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The story of the wars of belief between the French Jesuits and the Iroquois in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Canada - from the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award With the same panoramic vision and mythic sensibility he brought to The Ice-Shirt, William T. Vollmann continues his hugely original fictional history of the clash of Indians and Europeans in the New World. It is 400 years ago, and the Black Gowns, French Jesuit priests, are beginning their descent into the forests of Canada, eagerly seeking to convert the Huron--and courting martyrdom at the hands of the rival Iroquois. Through the eyes of these vastly different peoples--particularly through those of the grimly pious Father Jean de Brebeuf and the Indian prophetess Born Underwater--Vollmann reconstructs America's past as tragedy, nightmare, and bloody spectacle. In the process, he does nothing less than reinvent the American novel as well.

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Of course he was a charming man.

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  • Title Fathers and Crows: Volume Two of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes
  • Author William T. Vollmann
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Pages 1008
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date August 1, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780140167177 / 014016717X
  • Weight 1.71 lbs (0.78 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.43 x 5.51 x 1.71 in (21.41 x 14.00 x 4.34 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications.
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