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The Morning the Sun Went Down.
by Darryl Babe Wilson
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0930588819
- ISBN 13
- 9780930588816
- Seller
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Oregon City, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley, CA Heyday Books, 1998. Paperback First Edition Thus (1998), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First Edition Thus (1998), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: light wear to the extremities; some indentations at the middle of the front panel; a small crease near the lower front corner tip; "Malcolm Margolin" printed in small letters at the lower copyright page and "Hedda Villa" printed underneath the author's inscription on the title page; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches). xi, 178 pages. Language: English. Weight: 9.5 ounces. Trade Paperback. A slim, modest, and altogether extraordinary memoir of rural Native American life. Wilson, a poet and scholar from the of northeastern California, came into adolescence in the mid-1950s, when his people had all but disappeared through assimilation or extermination. Blame for part of that disappearance he lays squarely at the door of whites; but, he adds, "the neglect of our Elders to teach us our traditions was equally damaging." His own parents did their best to teach Wilson and his siblings something of the old ways: how to hunt deer, how to tame rattlesnakes, how to listen for mountain lions, lessons that he imparts to his readers with precision and grace- and not a little humor. But when his mother and younger brother were killed in a collision with a logging truck, Wilson was sent off to live with white foster parents among unfriendly neighbors (he remembers, touchingly, one young girl "who did not accuse me with her eyes or attitude," principally "because we were not enemies"). Whe it appeared that his foster parents wanted to strip away his Indian identity, Wilson rebelled, for which he was sent off to a boarding school where the young California Indian charges were locked in their rooms at nights and punished by day for minor infractions. Wilson recounts these horros matter-of-factly but doesn't dwell on them; instead, he celebrates a teacher who sagely corrected his compositions, encouraged him to improve himself, and urged him to become a writer. Readers have reason to be grateful to that teacher as well. Wilson is a careful and compassionate obeserver of his life and those of other young Indians, and his book is a fine addition to the growing library of Native American autobiography. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 52572
- Title
- The Morning the Sun Went Down.
- Author
- Darryl Babe Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus (1998), First Printing indicated by a complet
- ISBN 10
- 0930588819
- ISBN 13
- 9780930588816
- Publisher
- Heyday Books,
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, CA
- Date Published
- 1998.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Autobiography: S-Z; American Indian Biography; Indian Traditional Cultures;
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