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The owner of the sea : three Inuit stories / retold by Richard Price ; with an afterword by Nancy Campbell.
Van Pelt Library PR6066.R543 O96 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, Richard, 1966- author.
- Campbell, Nancy, 1965- author of afterword, colophon, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inuit mythology--Poetry.
- Inuit mythology.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 177 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Carcanet Classics, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: The Owner of the Sea
- The Owner of the Sea
- Father and daughter
- She keeps saying No
- Punch, stroke, caress
- Difficult hair
- Famine
- Husband and I
- Giant
- Pups
- A fatherly visit
- "Slut"
- Birthday present
- A straw for each mast
- Return
- Seduced
- Reaching in
- Crossing the ocean
- That morning
- Alone
- Sometimes
- In the distance
- Father, assassin
- Rage in grief
- First to break
- Grip
- The fingers
- Welcoming party
- You will have to visit me
- The Old Woman Who Changed Herself into a Man
- Winter
- Stone house
- Questions
- `Adopted daughter'
- Transformed
- Learning
- Arrival
- More questions
- Confession
- Kiviuq
- 1. The Boy and the Storm
- Have you seen Kiviuq?
- An orphan
- Our neighbour
- What my grandmother told me about Kiviuq
- Under the ice
- I don't want to
- Grandmother loses patience
- Baby seal
- Important question
- Skinning
- The skin suit
- Jeopardy
- Puddle
- Surface
- Bait
- The hunt
- Amauti, the large-hooded parka
- The storm
- Saved
- 2. After the Storm
- Kiviuq on the open sea
- First Voices
- Voices
- A welcome
- The drying rack
- 3. The Spiders and the Beads
- Where spiders make beads
- Strangers
- Homecoming
- Kiviuq's wives
- 4. Smoke, or is it Steam?
- Another shore
- Maybe a welcome
- Shadows
- Is that rain?
- What just happened?
- A kind of welcome
- A word in your ear
- A proposal
- 5. Driftwood, Needle and Thread
- Mother and daughter
- Wood
- Useful driftwood
- Grumbles
- Mittens and beads
- Needle
- Thread
- Kiviuq at the shore
- For the mother's sake
- 6. If You Can't Be Good Be Careful
- Stones and shells
- Tails
- A conversation between sisters
- On top
- Flat stone
- 7. Grizzly
- Turning away from the sea
- Arguments
- Inside the meat cache
- Only a man
- Family man
- Napping
- Wake up, Dad
- The bear's wife
- Running
- 8. The Lake Spirit
- `Marginal territory'
- A new home
- Kiviuq doesn't know it
- Sleeping
- The women talk by the lake
- Summoned
- Apprentice
- Shivers
- A question
- Again
- Firewood
- Summoned a third time
- Taking it all in
- Red
- I made the dinner tonight
- Choose
- Into every opening
- 9. The Fox-Wife
- Not in that house
- Surviving
- Three meals
- From the grave
- Coat
- Inukshuk
- Snatched
- Eyes meeting eyes
- Lovingly
- Wolverine
- A new friend
- The final pieces
- A quiet moment
- Agreement
- Which reminds me
- Bachelor?
- Mrs Wolverine
- House rules
- Fire
- Just a minute
- Waterfall
- A simple matter
- Outside
- Practically a family
- Slits
- Tracking
- The low house
- Beauty contest
- Tempted
- Decision
- Brief instruction
- The party
- In the small cave
- Exit
- 10. The Goose
- If you live for thousands of years
- At the lake
- Clothes on the Shore
- The swan
- The goose
- Kiviuq's call
- It's not a criticism
- Just between me and you
- Holes between the fingers
- Flight
- Waterfowl
- Silaup putunga
- I travel by song
- The giant
- Can you help me?
- Reunion
- Landfall
- Remarried
- Beads and mitts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781800171176
- 180017117X
- OCLC:
- 1253010832
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