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The Ice-Shirt: Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes

The Ice-Shirt: Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes

Vollmann, William T.

Paperback

Series: Seven Dreams

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0140131965
ISBN13: 9780140131963
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Aug 1 1993
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.91 Width: 4.73 Depth: 9.17
Language: English
A majestic fictional evocation of the Norse arrival in the New World, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central

The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call Vinland the Good. The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.

As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples--and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise--he creates a tour-de-force of speculative history, a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.

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