No Word for the Sea
No Word for the Sea is built on several layers of questioning: What is language? What is memory? Where does the mind go when the circuits shut down? The novel covers seven years in the lives of Solome and Stephen Savard in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stephen is provost at Cobson College, and Solome has raised three children. The events alternate between Stephen's first-person narrative and Solome's third-person narrative in accord with the breaking text of their lives. Once there was a common Indo-European language with words for winter and horse, but no word for the sea. The history of the English language has an inland origin. As they find themsel…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5326-3252-5
- EAN: 9781532632525
- Produktnummer: 23868292
- Verlag: Resource Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 186 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 279 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 279
Über den Autor
Diane Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College. Her 2014-17 books are Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education, Report to the Department of the Interior, One of Us, Ironic Witness, Uprising of Goats, The Collector of Bodies: Concern for Syria and the Middle East, and QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM: The Keyboard Letters. Among her awards: two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Minnesota Book Award, an American Book Award and Willa Award from Women Writers of the West.
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