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Title: SOLAR STORMS by Linda Hogan ISBN: 0-684-82539-2 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 26 February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hope in the face of destruction
Comment: This is a beautifully written novel. Hogan tells a tale not so common in contemporary society - that of a female quest myth. We have many tales of young men traveling in search of a vision and to come of age, but we have few such stories of women. Here Angel, a young Native American woman, must rediscover her place in relation to four generations of women in her family, and also in relation to her people as a whole. Her physical, emotional, and spiritual journey is told in poignant language that will grasp the reader and draw them into story in a whole new way. It forces us to look at the painful issues facing Native American peoples, and hopefully will bring a much-needed awareness to white Americans. Everyone should read this wonderful book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful prose, compelling vision
Comment: _Solar Storms_ is a powerful novel that should appeal to anyone concerned with issues relating to the environment, Indians, community activism, abuse, feminism, or cultural politics. Its fine writing offers even stronger drawing power.
The story is set 1972-1974 within a Native community threatened with destruction by the kind of economic development that marginalizes and exploits the north country to benefit other communities in the south. It is told from the point of view of one of the central characters. Angel is 17 when she returns home, trying to get a sense of her past and the origin of the scars that disfigure her face. Her quest for identity and information quickly broadens into larger, and more substantial concerns for the people of Adam's Rib. As she finds her place there, she gains perspective leading to commitments that reveal her developing inner strength. She learns that her individual identity finds its best expression in terms of her relationships within a community that encompasses other people, land and water, and all life.
Through the development of Angel's perspective, and the ideas and actions of the women who become her mentors, author Linda Hogan puts forth an astoundingly powerful vision of the relationships among humans and the natural world that sustain life. She does this with a richly detailed text that even readers who may not share Hogan's perspective will find the book enjoyable and provocative.
Hogan's _Solar Storms_ offers a reminder that the best stories are critical to human life not only for the pleasure of the text, but because they motivate ethical life. _Solar Storms_ merits recognition as a modern classic of American literature.
Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing use of the English language
Comment: One thing I like about book clubs is that they force people to read books they might not have otherwise read. When my book club chose Solar Storms, I was not overly enthusiastic. However, Hogan's writing captured me from the first page. I could feel the cold of the frozen Great Lakes, smell the stuffiness of hut, taste the native dishes, agonize with the family's loss. Then, when Angel returns to her grandmothers' home and begins her healing process, I could feel the story line start to vibrate in me like violin strings.
Like some of America's greatest prose, the content of this book was not as important to me as the style, although I thought the storyline was thought-provoking. No one memorizes Lincoln's Gettysburg Address because of the message. They memorize it because it is such a beautiful example of what our language can sound like in the hands of a master. Hogan is a master.
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Title: The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir by Linda Hogan ISBN: 0393323056 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction) by James Welch ISBN: 0140089373 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko ISBN: 0140086838 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: DWELLINGS : A Spiritual History of the Living World by Linda Hogan ISBN: 0684830337 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 17 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan ISBN: 0804108633 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 24 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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