- Fiction, Coyote (Legendary character), Indians of North America, Fantasy fiction
Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Thomas King
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 428
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, HarperPerennial Canada, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- srp, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780002239998
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Thomas King was born in 1943 in Sacramento, California and is of Cherokee, Greek and German descent. He obtained his PhD from the University of Utah in 1986. He is known for works in which he addresses the marginalization of American Indians, delineates "pan-Indian" concerns and histories, and attempts to abolish common stereotypes about Native Americans. He taught Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, and at the University of Minnesota. He is currently a Professor of English at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. King has become one of the foremost writers of fiction about Canada's Native people.
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