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An interesting look at American Indian lifestyles • • • • • (bewertet mit 3 von 5 Punkten) Rezension bezieht sich auf: Winter in the Blood (Contemporary American Fiction Series) (Taschenbuch) This Native-American novel takes place in Montana, around 1970. It is based on life on a cattle ranch that has been handed down two or three generations, obtained by hard work and great mechanical skill by First Raise, a Blackfoot Indian who did not live on the reservation. The main characters are Lame Bull (stepfather), Teresa (mother and owner of ranch) , Moses ( Teresa's dead son), First Raise (Teresa's first husband), the Old Woman (Teresa's mother), Agnes (Cree Indian woman) , and the narrator, James The story unfolds with little meaning at first and doesn't get much better as the story continues. For example, it is winter and the boys, Moses (14) and James (12) , go out to recover lost cattle while their father First Raise makes breakfast for them. Then the story cuts off and changes to a bar scene where James gets socked in the nose by a jealous boyfriend sitting with Agnes, a girls James used to date. The book has a lot a flashbacks, and they don't all seem to come together very well. There are some very good scenes in Part Two, where James goes to visit an old blind Indian names Yellow Calf. I feel scenes like these show the humanitarian side of James. This book has a lot of sexual overtones, bar scenes, and interesting points of view on American Indian lifestyles. Welch's writing has been compared to Ernest Hemingway's. Eine Rezension von Ein Kunde vom 2. November 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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