Swallowed by the Great Land And Other Dispatches from Alaska's Frontier |
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| Author:
| Kantner, Seth |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59485-968-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2015 |
| Publisher: | Mountaineers Books, The
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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CLICK HERE to download a free sample fromSwallowed by the Great Land "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.