false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172600876m/196429.jpg 196429 7 Winner of the PEN/Josephine Miles Award and nominated for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, <I>Medicine River</I> is a great introduction to Thomas King's humorous fiction. It's the story of Will, a mixed-blood man of Blackfoot descent and a marginally successful Toronto photographer, who has returned to the reserve for his mother's funeral. Will isn't planning on staying in Medicine River, but his old friend Harlen Bigbear has other plans for him. In a unique brand of community planning, Harlen sets out to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River as the town's only Native photographer, and manages to convince him to at least give it a try. Will feels alienated from his friends and family, but the ever-engaging Harlan has an answer for everything. <P> King's gift as a comic writer is his ability to tackle serious issues within an engaging comic narrative. He subtly explores the exclusion of First Peoples from white culture and history and the challenges faced by contemporary Native communities trying to maintain a connection to the past and a grip on the present, and he makes us laugh at the same time. Using a series of comic vignettes, King draws us into the very heart of Medicine River and creates a wonderful and intimate portrait of small-town life. Readers might also want to check out his fabulous novels, <I>Green Grass, Running Water</I> and <I>Truth and Bright Water</I>, and his short-story collection,<I>One Good Story, That One</I>. <I>--Jeffrey Canton</I> 189978 1990 Medicine River total:80|5:17|4:23|3:33|2:6|1:1| 80 289 122 7 2353561 0140254749 9780140254747 15 3 3.61 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2353561.Medicine_River 5 0 false Tue Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Tue Jun 30 11:59:27 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 12:12:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 196429 014305435X 9780143054351 64 4 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172600876m/196429.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196429.Medicine_River 2 0 false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 07:44:28 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 07:48:30 -0800 2009
Medicine River is a quiet, unassuming book. Not much happens - and yet everything happens; births, deaths, arguments between friends, fights, basketball, the flu, picnics. The book rounds out to be a study of a place, a town and Reserve and all the characters who inhabit bot...more...]]> 2353561 0140254749 9780140254747 15 3 3.61 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2353561.Medicine_River 5 0 false Wed Jul 30 04:24:52 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 14:10:05 -0700 2008 Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water I had very high expectations. This was a very different book, but no less enjoyable. While Green Grass, Running Water played decadently with meta-texts and inter-texts and was very upfront on its dealings with the Big Id...more...]]> 196429 014305435X 9780143054351 64 4 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172600876m/196429.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196429.Medicine_River 5 0 false Mon Oct 29 23:06:15 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 21:13:52 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 21:13:52 -0700 2007 over to the literature section and was compelled to pick this book up.

I have slowly started to read a few pages in the morning and soon found myself
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