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Fathers and Crows
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Fathers and Crows Paperback - 1993

by Vollmann, William (Author)

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Penguin Books, 1993. Paperback. New. fourth printing edition. 1008 pages. 8.75x5.75x2.00 inches.
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  • Title Fathers and Crows
  • Author Vollmann, William (Author)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 1008
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1993
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1-014016717X
  • ISBN 9780140167177 / 014016717X
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.41 x 5.55 x 1.76 in (21.36 x 14.10 x 4.47 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

With the same panoramic vision and mythic sensibility he brought to The Ice-Shirt, William T. Vollmann continues his hugely original fictional history of the clash of Indians and Europeans in the New World. It is 400 years ago, and the ?Black Gowns,? French Jesuit priests, are beginning their descent into the forests of Canada, eagerly seeking to convert the Huron--and courting martyrdom at the hands of the rival Iroquois. Through the eyes of these vastly different peoples--particularly through those of the grimly pious Father Jean de Brebeuf and the Indian prophetess Born Underwater--Vollmann reconstructs America?s past as tragedy, nightmare, and bloody spectacle. In the process, he does nothing less than reinvent the American novel as well.

From the publisher

William T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and Rising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Vollman's writing has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, Esquire, Conjunctions, Granta, and many other magazines. He lives in California.

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Of course he was a charming man.

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About the author

William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications.