The Death of Jim Loney - (Penguin Classics) by James Welch (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Jim Loney is a half-breed Indian living in a small Montana town. He's 35 years old, and he's slowly going mad. A compelling story of the modern American Indian, out of warpaint and costume, with no tribe and no home in nature or the cheap substitutes available to him.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>James Welch never shied away from depicting the lives of Native Americans damned by destiny and temperament to the margins of society. <i>The Death of Jim Loney</i> is no exception. Jim Loney is a mixed-blood, of white and Indian parentage. Estranged from both communities, he lives a solitary, brooding existence in a small Montana town. His nights are filled with disturbing dreams that haunt his waking hours. Rhea, his lover, cannot console him; Kate, his sister, cannot penetrate his world. In sparse, moving prose, Welch has crafted a riveting tale of disenfranchisement and self-destruction. <p/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>An undying story told with the austerity of Camus's <i>The Stranger</i>, of a wounded soul seeking to become whole.<br> -Ivan Doig <p/> <i>The Death of Jim Loney</i> is an American classic.<br> -William Kittredge<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>James Welch </b>(1940 - 2003) was the author of the novels <i>Winter in the Blood</i>, <i>The Death of Jim Loney</i>, <i>Fools Crow</i> (for which he received the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize, an American Book Award, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award), <i>The Indian Lawyer</i>, and <i>The Heartsong of Charging Elk</i>. Welch also wrote a nonfiction book, <i>Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn</i> <i>and the</i> <i>Fate of the Plains Indians</i>, and a work of poetry, <i>Riding the Earthboy 40</i>. He attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations in Montana, graduated from the University of Montana, where he studied writing with the late Richard Hugo, and served on the Montana State Board of Pardons. <p/><b><br></b>
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