Discount Shopping Online :: Books Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction) : :

Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction)
by: James Welch

List Price: $15.00

Amazon.com's Price: $10.20

You Save: $4.80 (32%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: $4.25
Collectible Price: $35.00
Third Party New Price: $7.74

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780140089370
ISBN: 0140089373
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: November 03, 1987
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sales Rank: 8605
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Related Items:

Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation. 'A major contibution to Native American literature.'--Wallace Stegner.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Happiness walks with sadness
Fools' Crow

The Pikunis must deal with the coming of the Napikwans (the whites). At first things go fairly well, a bit exciting for the bands as trade picks up at the forts, they live by treaty and live in relative peace for many years, but the Napikwans gradually move their whitehorns (cattle) into all of what is now Montana stretched up to the Back bone of the World (the Rocky Mountains) and eventually trickle north of the Medicine Line (Canada and U.S. Border).

Fools Crow is preparing for the greatest task of his life, that is to help prepare his people for the Napikwan takeover and the removal of his people from their lands. Should he and his band move north and live with those relatives that are still free from government control, but who are limited to the fishing they survive on. The other choice is to submit and learn to survive within the confines of the Napikwan agency, getting ... Read More

Rating:

- Exquisitely written
Fools Crow is an historical novel of the European invasion from a Native perspective. This tragedy is told through prose so hauntingly beautiful, it will stay with you for a long time to come. An exceptional book.

Rating:

- a real taste of native plains life
I've read a wide range of books on native americans but none have struck me, or stuck with me, like Fools Crow. This is a masterwork. It gives one the sense of living life on the high plains of what is now Montana in the years just before and then during the westward expansion of the Europeans. The gift of Welsh is his ability to transport you there, make you feel it, live and breathe it, through the glorious days before, the uncertain days leading up to, and the demoralizing days following the near obliteration of the Blackfoot culture. The use of native place names and language in the book serve to draw you in effortlessly. This is a beautiful book, powerful, heartbreaking, and memorable.

Rating:

- Just Amazing
I finished this book, put it down, picked it up, and read it again. The historically inevitable ending (for those who know history) does nothing to detract from Welch's ability to keep you hanging on every word, right up to the the end. The seamless integration of the physical and spiritual planes provides a refreshing view into not just Native American life, but life in general.

I just can't believe I didn't discover this book sooner.

Discount Shopping Online Books and Publications

Books : Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction)
Books and Publications Average Rating:

Search the web for info about Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction)

Discount Shopping Online Books and Publications

Books : Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction)Books and Publications Average Rating:

Search the web for info about Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction)

Books : Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction)
Books and Publications Average Rating: