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Thomas King

Green Grass, Running Water Audio Cassette – Audiobook, June 1 1998

by Thomas King (Author), Graham Greene (Narrator)

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When four Native elders escape from a mental hospital and set out to fix the world, they get no further than Blossom, Alberta, home of the Dead Dog Café. Along the way, they meet Alberta, who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby; Lionel, who sells televisions for a patronizing boss; and Eli, whose log cabin stands in the way of a dam. In this magical, rollicking tale, the elders and their companion, the trickster Coyote, unleash a flood of stories. Blossom will never be the same.

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English
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BTC Audiobooks
Publication date

June 1 1998
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10.8 x 3.48 x 14.17 cm
ISBN-10

0864922442
ISBN-13

978-0864922441
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ BTC Audiobooks; Abridged edition (June 1 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0864922442
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0864922441
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 60 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.8 x 3.48 x 14.17 cm

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Thomas King

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Thomas King is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, and photographer. His many books include the novels Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; Truth and Bright Water; two short story collections, One Good Story, That One (Minnesota, 2013) and A Short History of Indians in Canada (Minnesota, 2013); nonfiction, The Truth About Stories (Minnesota, 2005); and the children's books A Coyote Columbus Story, Coyote Sings to the Moon, Coyote's New Suit, and A Coyote Solstice Tale. King edited the literary anthology All My Relations and wrote and starred in the popular CBC radio series, The Dead Dog Café. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award (2003), and was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2004. He has taught Native literature and history and creative writing at the University of Lethbridge, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Guelph and is now retired and lives in Guelph, Ontario.

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Ariane

Excellent writing

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 12, 2022

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Wanted to re-read my first Thomas King novel. A reminder of the beginnings in his inimitable satirical humour! Always a good read.

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Robert Cox

Thomas King - The educated, erudite "Indian"

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 31, 2013

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Green Grass Running water is Thomas King's best book. It might be a classic. It sheds light on Original Peoples in sometimes funny, sometimes sad vignettes. Indians in Hollywood Westerns. Sometimes a little pitiful, the book crawls around in a few dark places with a humorous take on the plight of North American Original Peoples. Using a quartet of American movie and TV characters, King has them appear in various stories, sort of like super-heroes. A happy, sad part is a character getting bit parts in Hollywood wearing a nose to suit his parts. Not to be missed. I waited a long time to read this book - originally published in 1993 and still pure and poignant. There is a burgeoning demand for stories and books about Original Peoples - Green Grass Running Water was a harbinger. Let us hope that interest in Original Peoples' literature will bring about positive change in a community that has struggled for many years. Support Original Peoples. Read the literature that explains the situation. RC

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Beautiful. Powerful. Educational.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 15, 2017

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Green Grass Running Water is a beautiful, lyrical tale that incorporates Native Canadian mythology into a modern story. I read it in a Canadian literature class during my undergraduate degree and it was by far my favourite book. It is engaging, funny, and easy to read. It also, importantly, provides insight into the past and present culture of a marginalised people who have been systemically pushed out of society since Canada was first "discovered." We owe it to the First Peoples of Canada to learn some of their histories, and this is a fantastic way of doing so. Please, purchase; you won't be disappointed.

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Helga

Wonderful

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 26, 2021

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Wonderful and poetic book.

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Steven Boyle

A1

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 25, 2021

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As described and on time. A1!

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Someone

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 24, 2015

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King again has raised some serious thought provoking issues in an entertaining and provocative fashion. The recipe substitutions were very funny. The emphasis on family and the strength of the women was critical to understanding this story. This was again, time well spent!

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Theresa Wyatt

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 7, 2018

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all good!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 22, 2015

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Book was in as said condition. Very pleased
Took right to the last designated day to arrive. Was getting anxious.

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Ingrid Millinger

sehr einfühlsam

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on April 7, 2014

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Die Welt nach einem Krieg - aus der Sicht eines Teilnehmenden - Traumatische Erlebnisse - und wenig Hilfe von denen die den Krieg angezettelt haben! Eine Indianergeschichte....

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Bilagaana

TRÈS BON !

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on May 22, 2015

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Je ne connaissais pas cet auteur, j'ai acheté ce livre après avoir lu un article qui en parlait et je ne le regrette pas. Je n'ai qu'une envie, c'est en lire d'autres. C'est plein d'humour et de références à la culture amérindienne que j'ai beaucoup appréciés .

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momcat

Approche unique

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on June 19, 2019

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Très heureuse de découvrir cet auteur à travert ce livre. Il y a de l'humour et son approche est unique.

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I have lived with Native people and this author isn't one of them

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 25, 2020

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The writing is awful and this author is a college professor , not an Indian. The book is total nonsense and I couldn't finish it. I didn't want to waste any more of my time. If you want to read books by and Indian about real Indians, read anything by Richard Wagamese.

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jimsecor

The manner in which King interwove the stories so that everything dovetailed is brilliant.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2017

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Absolutely stunning writing, moving through different tale tellers and approaches to a similar problem. Old Indians, supposedly reappearing multiple times down through history but considered insane. Nutty characters, thoughtless characters, characters caught up in the status quo-ness of life. The humor of Indians (Blackfoot); the encumbering idiocy of government programs for progress that are nothing of the kind. Reconsiderations of classics. Very difficult it was to leave this book and go about the necessities of life. The manner in which King interwove the stories so that everything dovetailed is brilliant.

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