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People of the Whale
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ISBN-13:
9780393335347
Veröffentl:
2009
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.2009
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Linda Hogan
Gewicht:
300 g
Format:
209x139x29 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Linda Hogan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Mean Spirit. Her other honors include an American Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.
Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences, only to see tragedy befall the son he left behind.