Penguin Classics Winter in the Blood, (Paperback)

from jekka

I finally read this book because so many of the authors of my favorite books from the Native American Renaissance had cited it as an influential text. It was rough, but beautiful. Not a happy read, but definitely one worth reading.

from

I read this book when it was first published in the 1970s and held onto it, recognizing that it was a good novel. Rereading it some forty years later, I am stunned with its beauty and precision. Welch was a poet and it shows in his careful use of language. Every vignette of the narrator's life is...

from SheldonDeVane

A beautifully written novel. The narrator is a young Native American man living on his mother's cattle ranch. He is intelligent but self-destructive and emotionally distant from his family. He describes with precision and clarity everyone and everything around him and also frequent flashbacks to ...

from kaylaraeintheway

I've been intentionally trying to read more Native authors, and James Welch was at the top of my list after listening to a panel on his works at a local book festival last year. He writes with brutal honesty about the hardships of life, specifically for Native Americans. I can't say if I enjoyed ...

from mstrust

Winter in the Blood by James Welch. The days of a Blackfoot man who lives and works at his mother's Montana ranch. The story begins with the man's mother, Theresa, informing him that his live-in girlfriend has not only left him but she's taken the only items of value he had, his electric razor an...