Perma Red

"Original edition first published by BlueHen Books, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. in New York, New York."

Info autore

Debra Magpie Earling is the author of Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea. An earlier version of the latter, written in verse, was produced as an artist book during the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. She has received both a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She retired from the University of Montana where she was named professor emeritus in 2021. She is Bitterroot Salish.

Riassunto

Bold, passionate, and more urgent than ever, Debra Magpie Earling’s powerful classic novel is reborn in this new edition.

 

On the Flathead Indian Reservation, summer is ending, and Louise White Elk is determined to forge her own path. Raised by her Grandmother Magpie after the death of her mother, Louise and her younger sister have grown up into the harsh social and physical landscape of western Montana in the 1940s, where Native people endure boarding schools and life far from home. As she approaches adulthood, Louise hopes to create an independent life for herself and an improved future for her family—but three persistent men have other plans.

 

Since childhood, Louise has been pursued by Baptiste Yellow Knife, feared not only for his rough-and-tumble ways, but also for the preternatural gifts of his bloodline. Baptiste’s rival is his cousin, Charlie Kicking Woman: a man caught between worlds, torn between his duty as a tribal officer and his fascination with Louise. And then there is Harvey Stoner. The white real estate mogul can offer Louise her wildest dreams of freedom, but at what cost?

                                                                                               

As tensions mount, Louise finds herself trying to outrun the bitter clutches of winter and the will of powerful men, facing choices that will alter her life—and end another’s—forever.

Prefazione

• Major galley campaign, with galleys available for the sales force, major media, fiction media, Indigenous media, women's interest media
• Major media outreach, positioning this as an exciting reissue of a major title, for readers of Tommy Orange and Louise Erdrich
• Major Indie Next campaign, with bookseller outreach focused on stores that have sold INDIAN HORSE and THE SEED KEEPER, with a special focus on regional stores in the Mountains and Plains
• Cover reveal and preorder newsletter campaign in collaboration with Missoula-based bookstore; additional content—an excerpt from the book—promoted in the campaign
• Book trailer utilizing cover design elements, featuring audio of the author reading a short excerpt from the book; promoted via the publisher to book clubs and uploaded to Edelweiss
• Newsletter promotion via the publisher to readers, sales and academic lists of more than 30K contacts
• Advertising in Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, MPIBA and PNBA
• Major launch event in Missoula, MT
• Goodreads giveaway
• Reader's Guide available for download

Testo aggiuntivo

Winner of the American
Book Award, the Reading the West Book Award, and the Western Writers of
American Spur Award for Best Novel of the West

 

“Boldly drawn and passionate.”—Louise
Erdrich, author of The Sentence

“Spare, tough-minded and big hearted.”—USA
Today

“Dreamy and lyrical, frequently achieving a
shimmering beauty.”—The Oregonian

“A fever of a story, keenly fighting for air
and answers.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“It’s not just erotic desire that [Earling]
does so well. . . . Louise’s world is one in which all the senses are always on
hyper-alert. . . . This young girl’s struggle to save her own life makes for a
novel that has you on hyper-alert as you read: alive, alive to
the world it conjures.”—Alan Cheuse, NPR

“Haunting and memorable . . . Earling’s
deliberate pacing gives an otherworldly feel to the grim circumstances of the
time, and makes real the hypnotic effect of this slim, green-eyed woman on the
men around her.”—Seattle Times

“Beautifully written . . . Establishes Earling
as the literary heir to great American Indian writers such as James Welch and
Louise Erdrich.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“A new writer comes straight at us out of the
West, bypassing the conscious mind in describing her world of Indian
reservations, so that we almost smell that world before we understand it. . . .
[Earling’s] writing is the most physical I have read in a long time. . . .
Verbs and adjectives dance in new configurations. All this and plot too.”—Los
Angeles Times

“Earling is a talent to treasure. . . . Beauty
lies in [her] writing. Her words are spare, like the landscape and the bleak
hearts of those who judge and torment Louise. Her words are sharp, biting, like
the snakes that slither through the tale. Her words are honed to bare Louise's
wounds.”—Billings Gazette

“A haunting tale of persecution, brutality and
prejudice . . . paint[ing] a powerful picture of man’s inhumanity to man—one as
dark and uncaring as Montana’s midnight landscapes.”—Texas Observer

“Superb . . . A love story of uncommon depth
and power, a love story that is as painful as it is transcendent, a love story
in which the lovers . . . are unwilling to diminish themselves in the act of
joining together but are equally unable to turn away.”—Booklist

“Poignant . . . Earling offers first-rate
characterizations, and she does an equally fine job portraying tribal life in
the Flatland Nation.”—Publishers Weekly

“Perma Red is a startlingly
spiritual novel of the lives and loves and heartbreak on a Montana Indian
reservation. The characters, especially the strangely destructive lovers,
Louise and Baptiste, are so sharply drawn that they will bring tears to your
eyes. And the landscape, the richly detailed backdrop against which these
characters play out their roles, adds a dimension that borders on mythic. Debra
Magpie Earling is a truly gifted writer, and Perma Red is a
wonder-filled gift to all of us.”—James Welch, author of Fools Crow

“In the deep wells of compassion for her
people, and with her stunning eye for the rituals of their existence, Earling
reminds us that the greatest writing is always about matters of the human
heart.”—Larry Brown, author of Joe

“Perma Red is a terrific novel,
tough-minded, gritty, and powerful . . . rich with stories of such elemental
truth that they have the resonance of sacred songs, the lingering effect of
legends. I haven’t read a novel that affected me this much since I first
encountered Leslie Silko’s Ceremony.”—James Crumley, author
of The Last Good Kiss

“With Perma Red, Debra Magpie Earling finally steps
forward after two decades and delivers a book as permanently beautiful as the
Montana landscape itself. I find it hard, if not impossible, to shake Earling’s
book from my mind. To paraphrase another Big Sky writer, Norman Maclean, I am
haunted by words.”—David Abrams, author of Fobbit

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Debra Magpie Earling, Earling Debra Magpie
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 23.08.2022
• EAN: 9781571311467
• ISBN: 978-1-57131-146-7
• Pagine: 320
• Dimensioni: 139 mm x 215 mm x 25 mm
• Peso: 482 g
• Illustrazioni: Black and white archival and family photos
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia; Montana, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, c 1940 to c 1949, FICTION / Indigenous, Relating to Native American people, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary