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Green Grass, Running Water

Thomas King

Paperback | Pages: 469 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 6260 Users | 402 Reviews

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Original Title:	Green Grass, Running Water
ISBN:	0553373684 (ISBN13: 9780553373684)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Alberta(Canada)
Literary Awards:	Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction

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Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells televisions for a patronizing boss; Eli and his log cabin stand in the way of a profitable dam project. These three—and others—are coming to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance and there they will encounter four Indian elders and their companion, the trickster Coyote—and nothing in the small town of Blossom will be the same again…

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Title	:	Green Grass, Running Water
Author	:	Thomas King
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 469 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1994 by Bantam (first published March 1st 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Magical Realism. Fantasy

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Ratings: 4.02 From 6260 Users | 402 Reviews

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Here's a book I wish I had never read again.I walked away from my first reading with overwhelming feelings for Thomas King's story. I thought it one of the best books I'd ever read. It leapt to the top of my unofficial favourite books list, and I couldn't wait to read it again.The playful subversiveness of Coyote, King's post-colonial exploding of the Lone Ranger, Ishmael, Hawkeye, and Robinson Crusoe (popular culture's great "friends" to indigenous peoples) as their true "Native" selves, lame

In the beginning there was Ishmael, Hawkeye, Robinson Crusoe, and the Lone Ranger.No, wait. Let's get this right. It's not good to make mistakes with stories.So in the beginning there was Lionel and his auntie Norma, whose good advice is that it is okay to make mistakes in life but never make one with carpet, you must choose wisely. Sigh.In the beginning there was nothing but water. Water, water everywhere. And Coyote. Heeheehee.Oh, dear.In the beginning there was a wonderfully confusing but

This book was great. Funny, smart, and totally readable. King weaves multiple character story lines into a sharp satire about colonial history, pop culture and racism. Recommended.

Hello, Satire! This is one big satire and, structurally, a strange read. It is all over the place with its organization and there are so many characters and independent story lines that wind up being interconnected, that it took a LONG time to piece it all together. In fact, if i wasn't required to read it for a class, I likely would have quit on it out of confusion and due to the difficulty in trying to keep all of the characters straight in my head. Thrown into the crazy mix is the continuing

This is storytelling at its best -- a delightful, comical magical realism read about four native canadians who escape from a mental institution, a tv salesman turning 40 who contemplates the point of his life, his girlfriend Alberta who is trying to figure out how to conceive without bothering with a husband, the trickster Coyote who explains the creation of the world, and Uncle Eli who singlehandedly stops the canadian gov't from putting up a dam. Excellent dialogue and characters -- King's

very interesting read. king has got a lot going on in this story and this is a book he wants, i think, readers to work for. there are a lot of historical and cultural references, along with plays on origin stories. knowing these things, and catching them while reading, really added to the story for me, so i hope that people who read the book and don't know something they encounter will take a moment to look it up. king also uses satire in this novel. for the first part of the book (it's divided

It had some interesting things to say, but ultimately, I think this book tried to take on too many ideas. Racism, sexism, heteronormativity, cultural appropriation, Western culture, Native culture, the Bible and its religious figures, various novels and figures, colonization. It was just too much and personally, I would've preferred a more restrained and specific focus rather than a muddled mix of, like, everything.