Fathers and Crows (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: William T. Vollmann
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Nature, Missions or missionaries, Native Americans or American Indians, Canada or Canadians, Soldiers, Impressionism, French Canadians, Trapping, Fur trade
- Locales: Canada
Although William T. Vollman is only thirty-two, he has already published six books and attracted a great deal of favorable critical attention. FATHERS AND CROWS is almost a thousand pages long and represents only one-seventh of an ambitious project to write a dramatized history of North America.
In THE ICE-SHIRT, the first volume of a series that goes under the omnibus title of SEVEN DREAMS: A BOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN LANDSCAPES, Vollman described the colonization of Iceland and Greenland by Vikings in the tenth century. Now he leaps forward six hundred years to describe the...
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