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    Green Grass, Running Water

    A Novel

    Author Thomas King
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    $19.00 US
    Bantam Dell | Bantam
    On sale Jun 01, 1994 | 480 Pages | 9780553373684
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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.
    © Hartley Goodweather
    THOMAS KING is an award-winning writer whose critically acclaimed, bestselling books include Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; Truth and Bright Water; and The Back of the Turtle as well as several books for children. He has taught literature and creative writing at universities in the United States and Canada. Thomas King lives in Guelph, Ontario. View titles by Thomas King
    “King has established himself as a first-rate comic novelist. At his best, he is as savagely and darkly funny as Twain...King has produced a novel that defies all our expectations about what Native American fiction should be. It is a first-class work of art.”—Newsweek

    “King confirms his place as the best American Indian novelist to emerge since Louise Erdrich…King’s playfulness makes the story jump off the page.”—San Jose Mercury News

    “At once plainspoken and poetic, King is equally at home with his vivid, often comic characters and with the vibrant natural world in which their dramas are played out.”–People

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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 is an award-winning writer whose critically acclaimed, bestselling books include Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; Truth and Bright Water; and The Back of the Turtle as well as several books for children. He has taught literature and creative writing at universities in the United States and Canada. Thomas King lives in Guelph, Ontario. View titles by Thomas King

    Praise

    “King has established himself as a first-rate comic novelist. At his best, he is as savagely and darkly funny as Twain...King has produced a novel that defies all our expectations about what Native American fiction should be. It is a first-class work of art.”—Newsweek

    “King confirms his place as the best American Indian novelist to emerge since Louise Erdrich…King’s playfulness makes the story jump off the page.”—San Jose Mercury News

    “At once plainspoken and poetic, King is equally at home with his vivid, often comic characters and with the vibrant natural world in which their dramas are played out.”–People

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