The Heartsong of Charging Elk

A Novel

James Welch

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English

Anchor Books
02 October 2001

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction

From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow,James Welch gives usa richly

crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical

imagination.

Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of nineteenth-century

Marseille. Left behind in a Marseille hospital after a serious injury while the show

travels on, he is forced to remake his life alone in a strange land. He struggles

to adapt as well as he can, while holding on to the memories and traditions of life

on the Plains and eventually falling in love. But none of the worlds the Indian has

known can prepare him for the betrayal that follows. This is a story of the American

Indian that we have seldom seen- a stranger in a strange land, often an invisible

man, loving, violent, trusting, wary, protective, and defenseless against a society

that excludes him but judges him by its rules. At once epic and intimate, The Heartsong

of Charging Elk echoes across time, geography, and cultures.

By: James Welch
Imprint: Anchor Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780385496759
ISBN 10: 0385496753
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 02 October 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Welch is the author of four other novels, including Fools Crow, which won the American Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations and studied writing under the legendary teacher Richard Hugo. He died in 2003.

Reviews for The Heartsong of Charging Elk: A Novel

"""One of the year's best works of fiction."" --Chicago Tribune ""Moving... Absorbing... Magnificently imagined."" --The Boston Globe ""Brilliant... A masterpiece... Charging Elk [is] one of the most resonant characters of our current literature."" --Star Tribune ""Ambitious, moving and altogether nourishing... Welch's novel moves with sensual grace... A novel with an expansiveness of heart and mind, an intimate analogue of Indian estrangement worthy of any readerly voyage."" --Chicago Sun-Times ""Powerful... An engaging, pointed, heartfelt examination of culture clash and the debilitating effects of otherness."" --San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle ""Vivid [and] evocative... A story of survival... It's a familiar story, but Welch takes the conceit one step further, creating a Wild West show of his own."" --Los Angeles Times Book Review"