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The Indian who bombed Berlin and other stories / Ralph Salisbury.
LIBRA PS3569.A4597 I53 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salisbury, Ralph J.
- Series:
- American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)
- American Indian studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Fiction.
- Indians of North America.
- War and society.
- Multiracial people--Fiction.
- Multiracial people.
- War and society--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 210 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- Salisbury's stories are engaging and unique. He has a distinctive approach to assembling the elements of a narrative. The "facts" might be revealed directly, but they are more likely to emerge in small fragments of illumination, like pieces of a dream.
- The men Salisbury describes have been to war, and being "home" - in the States - is sometimes disorienting for them. Most of them think that they need a woman to help them get their bearings. High school football star Cyrus Littlehorse Jones dreams of slipping silky lingerie off the pale white bodies of high school cheerleaders. A Korean War veteran joins a Vietnam War protest so that he can score with a "hippie chick."
- Salisbury taps primal emotions - love, passion, anger - but he explores his subjects in unusual ways, like drillers who bore at odd angles to discover pools of oil trapped deep in layers of rock. He excavates the hearts and minds of his characters, mining them to fuel his stories. And his stories are the richer for it - invariably compelling and continually surprising.
- Stories keep us alive. No matter what happens. No matter how one's life goes. No matter how good or bad or funny or absurd. Stories are absolutely important and necessary. Stories are life givers and lifesavers. The proof is in the telling. And in the hearing and reading. Believe me. Read Ralph Salisbury's The Indian Who Bombed Berlin and Other Stories. And you will know.-Simon J. Ortiz, author of Men on the Moon, Woven Stone, After and Before the Lightning
- Contents:
- White snakes and red, and stars, fallen
- Bathsheba's bath, Bull Durham bull, and a bottle of Old Granddad
- White ashes, white moths, and white stones
- A Volga River and a purple sea
- Ival the Terrible, the red death
- The silver Mercedes and the big blue Buick, an Indian war
- The new world invades the old
- Two wars, two loves, two shores, and an ocean on fire
- Raven Mocker witches and refugees
- Campfire and cone of a pine
- Crazy Horse Morris and an orange boat
- A farewell on the way to war
- Losers and winners, an ongoing Indian war
- A monster mosquito seeking blood
- A way home
- Some Indian wars, some wounds
- A vanishing American's first struggles against vanishing
- Laugh before breakfast
- The chicken affliction and a man of God
- Hole soldiers, Madonna and child
- A sybarite and one of Columbus's mistakes
- A handprint in Columbus's homeland's dust
- A vanishing American and the War between the States
- Some killings, one accidental
- The miracle killing
- Fractures, a class reunion
- The Indian who bombed Berlin
- Between buses, between wars.
- ISBN:
- 9780870138478
- 0870138472
- OCLC:
- 247440841
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