Diane Glancy, Author . Univ. of Oklahoma $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8061-3400-0
A Native American woman with a mixed heritage uses the art of mask making to try to reconstruct her identity after a difficult divorce in this third novel by Clancy (Firesticks), an unconventional but one-dimensional book that picks up protagonist...
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Diane Glancy, Author . Univ. of Arizona $15.95 (62p) ISBN 978-0-8165-2328-3
Since her 1996 novel Pushing the Bear
, Glancy has established herself as one of the country's most versatile and prolific writers; this seventh book of verse (her first since 2000's The Relief of America
) focuses on the stockyards of mid-ce
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Diane Glancy, Author University of Oklahoma Press $14.95 (142p) ISBN 978-0-8061-2490-2
In her uniformly excellent collection, the fifth book in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies series edited by Gerald Vizenor, Glancy ( Brown Wolf Leaves the Res ) offers 19 stories, most previously unpublished. The modern-day Native...
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Diane Glancy, Author University of Minnesota Press $18.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-8166-2894-0
Glancy, the Cherokee author of the recent novel Pushing the Bear and the North American Indian Prose Award-winning essay collection, Claiming Breath, is a refreshing voice in these times of anger-filled Native American literature. Deftly blending...
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Diane Glancy, Author Moyer Bell $18.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-55921-183-3
The confusing passage to adulthood is the heart of Glancy's slender, poignant and powerful story of an innocent, deeply religious teenage girl. The second oldest of nine children, Rachel Hume learned to read by deciphering highway signs as her...
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Diane Glancy, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-100225-2
Poet, dramatist, short-story writer and essayist Glancy (winner of an American Book Award for Claiming Breath) turns her talents to the novel, recreating in this bone-true tale the sorrow, struggle and betrayal suffered by the Cherokee along the...
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Diane Glancy, Author Moyer Bell $22.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-55921-271-7
Set in rural Missouri a few decades ago, this fifth novel from poet and novelist Glancy (Flutie; The Closets of Heaven) consists of short, evocative vignettes related by Hadley Williges, the eldest daughter of her quarrelsome family. Her fervently...
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Diane Glancy, Author University of Nebraska Press $25 (109p) ISBN 978-0-8032-2173-4
Glancy (Pushing the Bear; The West Pole) admits to having ""written because I was hungry for words."" The reader here is served up little more than a gruel, or a mishmash of words striving for meaning. If, in fact, ""many Native American writers say
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Diane Glancy, Author, D. Glancy, Author . Overlook $21.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-58567-365-0
Glancy (Pushing the Bear) has fashioned an imaginative, second-person "diary" by the legendary Shoshone guide who aided Lewis and Clark on their expedition from Missouri to California. Sacajawea is a pregnant teenager in the late fall of...
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