| Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches from Alaska's Frontier Contributor(s): Kantner, Seth (Author) |
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ISBN: 159485968X ISBN-13: 9781594859687 Publisher: Mountaineers Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2015010791 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.7" W x 8.8" (0.60 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Alaska - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Seth Kantner illuminates an Alaska most of us will never know." -Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever and The Voyage of the Narwhal - Nonfiction short stories that pull you into the lives of those living in an otherworldly place - Seth Kantner received a Whiting Award naming him one of the nation's top-ten emerging writers - Publisher's Weekly called the author's 2004 debut novel, Ordinary Wolves, a tour de force When Seth Kantner's novel, Ordinary Wolves, was published 10 years ago, it was a literary revelation of sorts. In a raw, stylized voice it told the story of a white boy growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his largely subsistence and Native-style upbringing with the expectations and realities tied to his race. It hit numerous bestseller lists, was critically acclaimed, and won a number of awards. Seth's nonfiction second book, the memoir Shopping for Porcupine, was even more compelling for many readers--the same raw details of a homesteading upbringing, but intensely personal. Now, in Swallowed by the Great Land, he once again brings us into his lyrical wilderness existence. Swallowed by the Great Land features slice-of-life essays that further reveal the duality in the author's own life today, and also in the village and community that he inhabits--a mosaic of all life on the tundra. Unique characters, village life, wilderness and the larger landscape, a warming Arctic, and hunting and other aspects of subsistence living are all explored in varied yet intimate stories. |
