Author: Eric Gansworth
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571318208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"This is familial redemption at its finest, which is to say agonizingly complex and wholly engaging." - Booklist Every winter, Tommy Jack McMorsey watches the meteor showers in northern Minnesota. On the long haul from Texas to Minnesota, Tommy encounters a deluded Japanese tourist determined to find the buried ransom money from the movie Fargo. When the Japanese tourist dies of exposure in Tommy Jack’s care, a media storm erupts and sets off a series of journeys into Tommy Jack’s past as he remembers the horrors of Vietnam, a love affair, and the suicide of his closest friend, Fred Howkowski. Exploring with great insight and wit the ways images, stereotypes, and depictions intersect, Extra Indians offers a powerful glimpse into contemporary Native American life.
Extra Indians
Author: Eric Gansworth
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571318208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"This is familial redemption at its finest, which is to say agonizingly complex and wholly engaging." - Booklist Every winter, Tommy Jack McMorsey watches the meteor showers in northern Minnesota. On the long haul from Texas to Minnesota, Tommy encounters a deluded Japanese tourist determined to find the buried ransom money from the movie Fargo. When the Japanese tourist dies of exposure in Tommy Jack’s care, a media storm erupts and sets off a series of journeys into Tommy Jack’s past as he remembers the horrors of Vietnam, a love affair, and the suicide of his closest friend, Fred Howkowski. Exploring with great insight and wit the ways images, stereotypes, and depictions intersect, Extra Indians offers a powerful glimpse into contemporary Native American life.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571318208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"This is familial redemption at its finest, which is to say agonizingly complex and wholly engaging." - Booklist Every winter, Tommy Jack McMorsey watches the meteor showers in northern Minnesota. On the long haul from Texas to Minnesota, Tommy encounters a deluded Japanese tourist determined to find the buried ransom money from the movie Fargo. When the Japanese tourist dies of exposure in Tommy Jack’s care, a media storm erupts and sets off a series of journeys into Tommy Jack’s past as he remembers the horrors of Vietnam, a love affair, and the suicide of his closest friend, Fred Howkowski. Exploring with great insight and wit the ways images, stereotypes, and depictions intersect, Extra Indians offers a powerful glimpse into contemporary Native American life.
From Dhyan to Dhan : Indian Hockey Sudden Death Or Extra Time A Parable Of Indian Hockey Through 94 Years And 8 Gold Medals
Author: Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Publisher: Booksclinic Publishing
ISBN: 9358238666
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Drastic has been the condition and pitiable has been the state of Indian Hockey after March 15th 1975 when it won its only World Cup. The game which made India to be known all across the world and the impetus that it created in terms of the stills, skills, effects and impact, hockey should have been the BEST and the most RICHEST game of India, and the most popular , but it continues to live in the INTENSIVE CARE UNIT , with the players , leading their life as the paupers , living in the state of PENURY , and the administrators being the DRACULA and the DEMONS which has sucked the blood, to completely kill this game. The author who himself was a creditable Hockey player in his College days and also a former Sports Journalist completely diagnoses the root cause of the decay of the game and analysis to give some of the best solution so that this game once again brings trillions and miles of smiles, and laurel to India. Beautiful in narration and exhaustive in explanation this book really serves as a MUST for the sports lovers for a complete and meaningful reading. The manner in which it is written, the book serves as a revolution in the field of literature that relates to Indian Hockey , beside capable of earning a DOCTORATE for the manner in which the book is written.
Publisher: Booksclinic Publishing
ISBN: 9358238666
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Drastic has been the condition and pitiable has been the state of Indian Hockey after March 15th 1975 when it won its only World Cup. The game which made India to be known all across the world and the impetus that it created in terms of the stills, skills, effects and impact, hockey should have been the BEST and the most RICHEST game of India, and the most popular , but it continues to live in the INTENSIVE CARE UNIT , with the players , leading their life as the paupers , living in the state of PENURY , and the administrators being the DRACULA and the DEMONS which has sucked the blood, to completely kill this game. The author who himself was a creditable Hockey player in his College days and also a former Sports Journalist completely diagnoses the root cause of the decay of the game and analysis to give some of the best solution so that this game once again brings trillions and miles of smiles, and laurel to India. Beautiful in narration and exhaustive in explanation this book really serves as a MUST for the sports lovers for a complete and meaningful reading. The manner in which it is written, the book serves as a revolution in the field of literature that relates to Indian Hockey , beside capable of earning a DOCTORATE for the manner in which the book is written.
Extra Globe
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The Extra Globe
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Extra Census Bulletin
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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United States Telegraph Extra,Sept.3-Oct.23, 1832
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Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation. Indian ed
Author: Ferdinand Jacob H. freiherr von Mueller
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Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Journal of the Assembly During the ... (extra Session of the Legislature of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Annual report of the Department of Indian Affairs
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
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Indian Basketry
Author: George Wharton James
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Category : Basket making
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Category : Basket making
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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