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Bezig met laden... The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)door Rudy Wiebe
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. As much as I wanted to keep up with Big Bear I just couldn't handle Wiebe's bizarre array of form, perspectives, and format. I got bogged down, confused with the details, and frankly the moments of lyrical beauty were not worth the work, which started to feel like a trudge. I will never forget the scene where BB's son makes a horse come, even if I wanted to, which I do. I liked this book. Big Bear was the leader of the Cree part of the Second Riel Rebellion, and his band participated in the fight at Duck Lake Saskatchewan. his group didn't connect with the metis forces under Riel and Dumont but waged their own struggle. I think Mr. Wiebe has created a good, solid novel about this particular resistance and is well worth reading by any North American, no matter what their origin. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)New Canadian Library (122)
“What can that mean, I and my family will have a ‘reserve of one square mile’?” So asks Big Bear of Governor Morris, come to impose a square treaty on the round, buffalo-covered world of the Plains Cree. As the buffalo vanish and the tension builds to the second Riel Rebellion, Big Bear alone of the prairie chiefs keeps up pressure for a better treaty by refusing to choose a reserve. He argues, “If any man has the right to put a rope around another man’s neck, some day someone will get choked.” It is Big Bear’s story – and the story of Wandering Spirit, of Kitty McLean and John McDougall–that is told in this novel with rare and penetrating power. Permeated with a sense of place and time, this eagerly awaited work by Rudy Wiebe reflects the author’s sensitivity to the Canadian prairies, their history, the minds and hearts of their diverse people. Exploring Big Bear’s isolated struggle, Wiebe has encompassed in one creative sweep not only his hero’s struggle for integrity, but the whole range and richness of the Plains culture. Here is the giant circle of the prairie horizon, and the joy, the sorrow, the pain and the triumph and the violence of unconquerable human beings faced with destruction. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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