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A Novel of the Nez Perce War
Nez Perce War #6
Viking
August 2015
On Sale: July 28, 2015
ISBN: 0670015989
EAN: 9780670015986
Kindle: B00OZ0TKF2
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Historical
"The reading experience of a lifetime ..."--The
Washington Post
The National Book Award winner
takes readers inside the epic fighting retreat of the Nez
Perce Indians
In this new installment in
his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions
between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T.
Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with
flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at
every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in
1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since
Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across
Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann’s main
character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his
pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy,
tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this
novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband,
friend, and killer.
Teeming with many vivid
characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an
original style in which the printed page works as a stage
with multiple layers of foreground and background, The
Dying Grass is another mesmerizing achievement from one
of the most ambitious writers of our time.
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