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The Ice-Shirt: Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes

The Ice-Shirt: Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes - Paperback

by William T. Vollmann
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Availability:In StockContributor:William T. VollmannSeries:Seven DreamsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1993-08-01Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140131963ISBN-10:140131965UPC:9780140131963Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, IndigenousSize:9.17 x 4.73 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCJYM766D4
A majestic fictional evocation of the Norse arrival in the New World, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central

The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call "Vinland the Good." The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.

As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples--and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise--he creates a tour-de-force of speculative history, a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140131963ISBN-10:140131965UPC:9780140131963Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, IndigenousSize:9.17 x 4.73 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCJYM766D4
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.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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