Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival - Couverture rigide

Wallis, Velma

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0972494499 ISBN 13 : 9780972494496

Editeur : Epicenter Press, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Wallis Velma

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.

Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).

Biographie de l'auteur :

Velma Wallis is one in a family of thirteen children, all born in the vast fur-trapping country of Fort Yukon, Alaska, and raised with traditional Athabascan values. A writer and avid reader, she lives in Fairbanks.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Epicenter Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0972494499
• ISBN 13: 9780972494496
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 160