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Dalva by Jim Harrison
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Dalva

by Jim Harrison

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There are two elements that make this story compelling: the characters and the sweeping shadow of history under which they live. Dalva is supposed to be the main character, but her story is told through the richness of the others. Michael, the alcoholic professor bumbling his way through Dalva's history in attempt to reach tenure; Duane, Dalva's teenage half Sioux love; Dalva's mother, Naomi; Uncle Paul and the diaries of her great-grandfather, the missionary who first came to Nebraska. ( )
1 vote SeriousGrace | Mar 12, 2008 |
My favorite novel by Harrison. The prose is lush (Harrison is also a poet) and the story engaging. Dalva has the added bonus of being one of the few books to make me cry. ( )
  harveymorrell | Jun 5, 2007 |
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  anlor43 | Apr 10, 2007 |
This story puts all of Harrison's usual suspects in one book: Wealthy folks who don't need money, have a stormy family history, and who are part American Indian searching for family and personal answers amidst a rural back drop. This time the plains of Nebraska. Only Harrison's writing makes it work. ( )
  JBreedlove | Nov 29, 2006 |
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From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of theNebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up foradoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way, she discovers a story that stretches from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam -- and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul.

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