The Dying Grass
A Novel of the Nez Perce War
The National Book Award winner takes readers inside the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann's main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, Gener…
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- ISBN: 978-0-698-13549-9
- EAN: 9780698135499
- Produktnummer: 17669376
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 1376 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 20'636 KB
- Abbildungen: 18 B/W PHOTOS, 18 B/W SPOT IMAGES, AND 12 B/W MAPS T/O
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William T. Vollmann has written nine novels, four collections of stories, six works of nonfiction, and a memoir. He has won the National Book Award for Europe Central, the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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