Book
Medicine River
Record details
- ISBN: 0140254749 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0140126031 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0670829625 :
- ISBN: 9780140254747 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780140126037 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 97806708296210 :
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Physical Description:
261 p. ; 23 cm.
print - Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Viking, 1990.
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| Subject: | Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Alberta -- Fiction Canadian fiction -- Cherokee authors Siksika Nation -- Fiction Alberta -- Fiction |
| Topic Heading: | dm Aboriginal |
Available copies
- 4 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Rupert Library | KING (Text) | 33294000204032 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
A young Canadian Indian returns to his hometown outside a Blackfoot Reserve where he recovers his lost heritage among a varied cast of characters, including an all-Indian basketball team, a marriage doctor, and a world traveler.
"Will returns to Medicine River, a town just outside a Blackfoot reserve, to bury his mother and reconsider his past. In short order he finds himself very much caught up in the present, opening a photography studio and playing on the local basketball team. His best friend and sometime coach, Harlan Bigbear, quickly convinces him to get involved with pregnant, unwed (and rich) Louise Heavyman. Will visits with Martha Oldcrow, the marriage doctor, and grapples with David Plume, just back from the protest at Wounded Knee. He meets other wanderers, from Joe Bigbear, Harlan's brother, a world traveler and storyteller par excellence, to Bertha Morley, who leaves the reservation to try her luck with a Calgary dating service. King's deceptively simple comedy is an intriguing portrait of Native American life today."--Publisher's Weekly.
"Will returns to Medicine River, a town just outside a Blackfoot reserve, to bury his mother and reconsider his past. In short order he finds himself very much caught up in the present, opening a photography studio and playing on the local basketball team. His best friend and sometime coach, Harlan Bigbear, quickly convinces him to get involved with pregnant, unwed (and rich) Louise Heavyman. Will visits with Martha Oldcrow, the marriage doctor, and grapples with David Plume, just back from the protest at Wounded Knee. He meets other wanderers, from Joe Bigbear, Harlan's brother, a world traveler and storyteller par excellence, to Bertha Morley, who leaves the reservation to try her luck with a Calgary dating service. King's deceptively simple comedy is an intriguing portrait of Native American life today."--Publisher's Weekly.
