Dance Me Outside: More Tales from the Ermineskin Reserve (Nonpareil Books, 73) - Softcover

Kinsella, W. P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879239824 ISBN 13: 9780879239824

Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1995

Synopsis

Seventeen new tales narrated by Silas Ermineskin vividly recreate the world of the contemporary North American Indian and view the decent and honorable types as well as the drunks and thieves

About this title

From Library Journal:

Originally published in Canada in 1977, and only now available in the United States, this collection by a white writing from an Indian perspective offers many delights, chief of which are the good storytelling, the ingenue as central narrator, the moderately exotic setting (Alberta), and the human values that charge every scene. Characters that are now stock (the fat medicine woman, the Indian girl marrying not necessarily up but off the reserve) join absolute originals in a series of alternately poignant, dramatic, frightening, depressing, and comic incidents. Reappearing characters and a modified dialect make for some minor repetitions (the stories first appeared separately) but also serve to unify the collection. Recommended for most libraries. Rhoda Yerburgh, Adult Degree Program, Vermont Coll., Montpelier
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About this edition

• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0879239824
• ISBN 13: 9780879239824
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158