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Two Old Women, 20th Anniversary Edition : An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival Paperback - 2013
by Velma Wallis
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- Title Two Old Women, 20th Anniversary Edition : An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
- Author Velma Wallis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 20 ANV
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, NY USA
- Date 2013
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0062244981I5N10
- ISBN 9780062244987 / 0062244981
- Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 7.14 x 5.11 x 0.41 in (18.14 x 12.98 x 1.04 cm)
- Reading level 1030
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Generational Orientation: Elderly/Aged
- Geographic Orientation: Alaska
- Seasonal: Winter
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.
Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community, and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).