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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 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. ( )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. www.thebookpond.se 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. 0.166 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0671740679, Paperback)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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:51 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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