With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Winter in the Blood is an evocative and unforgettable work of literature that will continue to move and inspire anyone who encounters it.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his once proud heritage, and Montana's vast emptiness.
The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Despite the clarity of this memory, the narrator admits that the details of the event escape him: “I could almost remember going into the bar in Dodson and being told that he had left for home the night before so we must have been searching the borrow pits” (15).A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance - "Brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch's best work." -Tommy Orange, The Washington Postĭuring his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works. It is not unusual for memories of traumatic events to be a mix of vivid and hazy, and this uncertainty is reflected early in the novel, when the narrator insists that, counter to his mother’s memory, he and his family found First Raise’s body themselves: “I had a memory as timeless as the blowing snow that we had found him ourselves, that we had gone searching for him after the third day, or the fourth day, or the fifth” (15). The narrator has been profoundly affected by the loss of his beloved brother, who died when the narrator was 12, and his father, who died when the narrator was in his late teens or early twenties his memories of these events are blurred by time and trauma. One of the most significant themes in the novel is that of memory-specifically the fallibility of memory, the impact memory has on shaping our perception of the world, and the effect that the intersection between its unreliability and importance can have on an individual.
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