People of the whale : a novel /
Hogan, Linda.
People of the whale : a novel / Linda Hogan. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2008. - 303 p. ; 22 cm.
Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences, only to see tragedy befall the son he left behind.
9780393064575 0393064573 9780393335347
2008025040
Indians of North America--Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Fiction.
Culture conflict--Fiction.
PS3558.O34726 / P46 2008
813/.54
People of the whale : a novel / Linda Hogan. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2008. - 303 p. ; 22 cm.
Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences, only to see tragedy befall the son he left behind.
9780393064575 0393064573 9780393335347
2008025040
Indians of North America--Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Fiction.
Culture conflict--Fiction.
PS3558.O34726 / P46 2008
813/.54