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Washington Square Press, January 1991
Trade Paperback, 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0671740679
ISBN-13: 9780671740672
Description
From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way, she discovers a story that stretches from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam -- and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul.
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Browse Inside DalvaLouise Erdrich
The Chicago Tribune
Monumental...Bighearted, an unabashedly romantic love story...There is no putting aside Dalva.
The Los Angeles Times Book Review
Jim Harrison's Dalva is the story of a remarkable modern woman's search for her son....Harrison beautifully conveys Dalva's essential femininity...Dalva asserts that she has never been seduced
-- has always, subtly, done the seducing of lovers herself...Harrison's Dalva may well seduce you, too.
The Washington Post Book World
Dalva...is that rare fictional creation, a character whom the reader dearly would love to meet.
The Boston Globe
Harrison's stories move with random power and reach in the manner of Melville and Faulkner.
The London Sunday Times
Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.
Louise Erdich
Chicago Tribune
Fascinating...a work of humor and a unified lament....Voices that cut through time and cross the barriers of culture and gender to achieve a work in chorus ...there is no putting aside Dalva until the time bombs go off, the identities are revealed, and the skeletons almost literally tumble from the closets...Dalva is suspended in its own beauty...a book to...read with trust and exuberance.
Publishers Weekly
Entertaining, moving, and memorable...a cast of fascinating characters.
The New York Times Book Review
Harrison's storytelling instincts are nearly flawless...The people in Dalva reemerge as full-blooded individuals who almost incidentally embody much of the innocence, carelessness, and urgency that played so large a part in the settling of this country. Best of all, perhaps, are Mr. Harrison's descriptions of the land
-- the untamed deserts, plains, forests, and arroyos of what was once the Western frontier...tough but rhapsodic language.
San Francisco Chronicle
A fascinating novel about an American woman...Harrison uses his pen as a sword to right wrongs and settle scores....He takes bigger risks, letting go of old habits and surrendering to his own impassioned imagination.
The Washington Post Book WorldMoving, interesting, and satisfying...Dalva is Harrison's most ambitious novel to date....Harrison has succeeded admirably.
ALA BooklistDiamond-in-the-rough elegance...an exquisitely carved portrait of the lives and loves of 45-year-old Dalva...Harrison as a novelist continues to grow deeper and more beautiful.
Christian Science MonitorHarrison's style is flexible, and capable of great intimacy...Dalva turns out to be a festival of life's poetry.
Kirkus ReviewsHarrison...taps deep and true with this portrait of a family...
Capital Times, December 3, 2009
...Michigan writer Jim Harrison has a new collections of novellas titled “The Farmer’s Daughter.” Photo by Wyatt McSpadden The first money I ever received for writing something was a check for $30 ...
St. Petersburg Times, December 27, 2008
...of time thinking about sex? " If those guys are a couple of lions of American literature like Jim Harrison and John Updike, you get two of my favorite novels of 2008: Harrison's The English Major and Updike's The Widows of Eastwick. " You ...
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