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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140131965
ISBN-139780140131963
eBay Product ID (ePID)52674
Product Key Features
Book TitleIce-Shirt : Volume One of Seven Dreams: a Book of North American Landscapes
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
TopicNative American & Aboriginal, Literary, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorWilliam T. Vollmann
Book SeriesSeven Dreams Ser.
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight13.9 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition20
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Series Volume NumberVol. 1
Volume Number
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Grade ToUP
SynopsisA majestic fictional evocation of the Norse arrival in the New World, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call "Vinland the Good." The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature. As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples--and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise--he creates a tour-de-force of speculative history, a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.
