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S'està carregant… Motorcycles and Sweetgrassde Drew Hayden Taylor
  
No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  SandyAMcPherson | Jun 11, 2020 |   I would recommend this book to anyone ready for a lightish, quirky, and educational read. (  ) munchie13 | Mar 26, 2018 | Feels like going back to my childhood days, when I nearly ate the Winnetou-series. This book is more about modern times, which is good. You can't dwell in the past, but do need to remember/keep the stories, if not the spirit alive. I wondered what would have happened, if Maggie had reacted differently to John-with-the-thousand-last-names's action near the end of the book. And did Virgil pass his exam? I will try to get my hands on more books on/by natives. Not only of Indian descend, but also Aboriginals and I suppise there will be many more. I love stories and I think in our modern world they still deserve to be heard (or read in my case). (  ) BoekenTrol71 | May 13, 2017 | It was quite readable and enjoyable except for one character, Wayne, whom I found totally jarring to the story. I think he would have been better as an extra in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon than in this aboriginal legend. On the other hand, the rest of the cast...particularly the main character...were well drawn. They could easily have fallen into stereotypes or single-faceted symbols, but didn't. (  ) TadAD | Sep 14, 2014 | ) Chrisbookarama | Sep 23, 2013 |
 Drew Hayden Taylor’s got no qualms about poking fun at his native roots, and that’s what makes Motorcycles And Sweetgrass such a pleasure. It’s playful yet soulful, with a narrative that keeps those pages turning...Motorcycles And Sweetgrass is a fun, rollicking book, and Taylor’s voice is fresh and unique. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass may be concerned with aboriginal community politics, identity, mythology and intergenerational legacies, but it reads like a romp...Taylor writes with a breezy sense of pacing and dialogue-propelled comic incident (“He’s a few strands short of a full dream-catcher ...”) His book generates much comic momentum from the juxtaposition of archetypal small-town small-mindedness — infused with 21st century lifestyle essentials as cell phones, Internet access and pop culture ubiquity — with the problems faced by a trickster figure let loose in a community already preoccupied with fooling itself As Maggie, Virgil, and the rest of Otter Lake deal with the white interloper, Taylor brings a modern twist to ancient native folklore. Motorcycles and Sweetgrass is a charming story about the importance of balance and belief – and a little bit of magic – in everyone’s life. Premis
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. nbsp; Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle - and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve's chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger's intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne - a master of aboriginal martial arts - to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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The characters were so adroitly shown in the narrative that it was simply delightful to get to know them and go with the flow, a touch of myth and magic, a slightly cynical flavour of white politics messing around with Indians and their traditions. It was great! (