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Dalva

Jim HarrisonSeries: Dalva
4.8
(9)
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Pages
999
Year
2013
Language
English
Publisher
Grove Press

About

Now available in eBook for the first time, Dalva is one of the finest novels by New York Times bestselling, much beloved author Jim Harrison: a beautifully crafted story of one woman's journey to find her son. 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. One of Harrison's most ambitious novels, Dalva explores an extraordinary family through the strong, engaging voice of an unforgettable woman, confirming Harrison as one of America's most memorable writers.

Related Subjects

  • Literary
  • Adult Fiction
  • Women
  • General (Family Life)
  • Family Life
  • General (Indigenous)
  • Indigenous

Extended Details

  • SeriesDalva #1

    Reviews

    "Monumental . . . 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
    Louise Erdrich, Chicago Tribune
    "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 West
    New York Times Book Review
    "Moving, interesting, satisfying . . . Dalva is Harrison's most ambitious novel to date. . . . What arouses our curiosity and sympathy is [Dalva's] quiet exploration her meditations upon her family, her loves, her losses and her gains, her sense of the world she inhabits. . . . Harrison has succeeded admirably."
    Washington Post Book World

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    Jim HarrisonAuthor

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