The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War (Seven Dreams - Fifth Dream)

Vollmann, William T.

ISBN 10: 0670015989 / ISBN 13: 9780670015986

Published by Viking (Penguin Random House), New York, 2015

About this Item

First edition, hardcover, signed by Vollmann on the title page, has a slight skew to the binding, mild bowing to the covers, moderate bumps to spine ends, a small faint smudge to fore edge of text block, and a touch of creasing to upper corner of a few pages of text block, otherwise a solid, tight, bright VG+ copy in a like unclipped dust jacket, which has mild bumps to spine ends, and a touch of wear to edges and corners. Jacket is wrapped in a removable Mylar cover.

Seller Inventory # 102469

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War (Seven Dreams - Fifth Dream)
• Publisher: Viking (Penguin Random House), New York
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670015989
• ISBN 13: 9780670015986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

"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.

About the Author

William T. Vollmann has written nine novels, four collections of stories, six works of nonfiction, and a memoir. He has won the National Book Award for Europe Central, the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.