| Ordinary Wolves Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Kantner, Seth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571311211 ISBN-13: 9781571311214 Publisher: Milkweed Editions OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Native American & Aboriginal |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015028717 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (1.00 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Alaska - Sex & Gender - Masculine - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 88822 Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in a sod igloo while blizzards moan overhead. But this is the only world Cutuk Hawcley has ever known. Born and raised in the Arctic, he has learned to provide for himself by hunting, fishing, and trading. And yet, though he idolizes the indigenous hunters who have taught him how to survive, when he travels to the nearby Inupiaq village, he is jeered and pummeled by the native children for being white. When he leaves for the city as a young man, two incompatible realities collide, perfectly capturing the contrast between the wild world and our ravaging consumer culture. (Louise Erdrich). In a powerful coming of age story, a young man isolated by his past must choose between two worlds, both seemingly bent on rejecting him. |
