The Ice-Shirt Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes
by Vollmann, William T.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-08-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications.
Table of Contents
| Ice-Text: The Book of Flatey (1382) | 5 | (8) | |||
| The Ice-Shirt | 13 | (328) | |||
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15 | (68) | |||
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83 | (42) | |||
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125 | (4) | |||
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129 | (212) | |||
| In the Ice (1532--1931) | 341 | (10) | |||
| Glossaries, Chronology, Sources | 351 | (2) | |||
| Glossaries | 353 | (30) | |||
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359 | (24) | |||
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361 | (10) | |||
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371 | (3) | |||
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374 | (4) | |||
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378 | (1) | |||
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379 | (4) | |||
| A Chronology of the First Age of Vinland | 383 | (12) | |||
| Sources and a Few Notes | 395 | (18) | |||
| Acknowledgements | 413 |
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