From the rear cover
The narrator-protagonist of this magical novel about urban mixed-blood Indian life is Albert (Alley) Hummingbird, a self-conscious, shy college student who masks his feelings with humor and who longs to reconcile the two cultures that have formed him. Alley is not supposed to live at birth, but his grandfather, a Nez Perce, rescues him from Death (who reappears throughout the novel as a petty, mean, pathetic, and ultimately funny character). The grandfather's teachings to Alley, which come from the afterlife region known as the "absence of angels", connect Alley to his Indian heritage when he most needs it. Otherwise his life is fragmented: a father who rejected his heritage, a mother who is slightly mad, and a friend, Sara, with whom Alley is in love.
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- Title The Absence of Angels, Volume 14
- Author W. S. Penn
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 268
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
- Date 1995-02-15
- ISBN 9780806127149 / 0806127147
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.55 x 5.48 x 0.73 in (21.72 x 13.92 x 1.85 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Bildungsromane
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94034607
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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