Green Grass, Running Water

A Novel

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$19.00 US
On sale Jun 01, 1994 | 480 Pages | 9780553373684
In this contemporary classic of Native American fiction, King unites two strong, sassy women with three hard-luck, stubborn men in search of the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world. King mixes realism, fantasy, and stories within stories to set up a meeting between five Blackfoot Indians and four of their very ancient, peripatetic relatives and their companion, the trickster Coyote, with results that ensure nothing in their small town of Blossom will ever be the same again.
© Hartley Goodweather
THOMAS KING has written several highly acclaimed children's books, including My Lala (illustrated by Charlene Chua). A Coyote Solstice Tale (illustrated by Gary Clement) won the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award for Best Picture Book and A Coyote Columbus Story (illustrated by Kent Monkman) was a Governor General's Literary Award finalist. King, who is of Cherokee and Greek descent and was a Professor of English at the University of Guelph for many years, won a Governor General's Literary Award for his adult novel The Back of the Turtle; he won both the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction and the RBC Taylor Prize for The Inconvenient Indian. His novel Indians on Vacation was shortlisted for the Govenor General's award and won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Thomas lives in Guelph, Ontario with his family. View titles by Thomas King

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In this contemporary classic of Native American fiction, King unites two strong, sassy women with three hard-luck, stubborn men in search of the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world. King mixes realism, fantasy, and stories within stories to set up a meeting between five Blackfoot Indians and four of their very ancient, peripatetic relatives and their companion, the trickster Coyote, with results that ensure nothing in their small town of Blossom will ever be the same again.

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© Hartley Goodweather
THOMAS KING has written several highly acclaimed children's books, including My Lala (illustrated by Charlene Chua). A Coyote Solstice Tale (illustrated by Gary Clement) won the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award for Best Picture Book and A Coyote Columbus Story (illustrated by Kent Monkman) was a Governor General's Literary Award finalist. King, who is of Cherokee and Greek descent and was a Professor of English at the University of Guelph for many years, won a Governor General's Literary Award for his adult novel The Back of the Turtle; he won both the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction and the RBC Taylor Prize for The Inconvenient Indian. His novel Indians on Vacation was shortlisted for the Govenor General's award and won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Thomas lives in Guelph, Ontario with his family. View titles by Thomas King

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