The Death of Jim Loney (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Welch
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Murder or homicide, Native Americans or American Indians, Death or dying, Abandonment, Isolation, Montana
- Locales: Montana
The theme and setting of Welch's second novel, The Death of Jim Loney, are similar to those of his first. Loney is a thirty-five-year-old half-breed living in Harlem, a small Montana town near the reservation. The differences between Loney and the narrator of Winter in the Blood, however, are considerable. The earlier book's narrator lives on the reservation and visits the towns. Jim Loney resides in town and visits the reservation, but he is not at home anywhere. He is a “breed,” half non-Indian, half nonwhite, neither here nor there. His Indian mother is absent,...
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