Word: craven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burr, Vidal (1 last week) 2-Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, Drury (2) 3 -Postern of Fate, Christie (3) 4 -The Honorary Consul, Greene (4) 5 -Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red, Kernelman 6 -1 Heard the Owl Call My Name, Craven 7 -The Eye of the Storm, Whife (9) 8 -Nickel Mountain, Gardner (7) 9 -The Hollow Hills, Stewart (5) 10 -The First Deadly Sin, Sanders...
...Heard the Owl Call My Name, Craven...
...Margaret Craven, a journalist and short-story writer, stayed on for weeks at Kingcome: listening, interviewing, taking notes. Like many another writer in similar circumstances, she resolved that she would get it all down before it was gone forever. What she finally produced was I Heard the Owl Call My Name, a blend of fact and imagination that can better be described as a prose elegy than a novel...
Boiled Candlefish. The device that transforms the book into fiction is rude enough. Everything that Margaret Craven swiftly experienced and loved about the Kwakiutls is gradually learned by a young Anglican vicar, Mark Brian. He is fatally ill but does not know it, and has been sent to the village by his bishop to "learn enough of life to be ready to die." Much of Mark's story is presented as a marvelously compact and compelling semidocumentary. The reader meets the old and the young of the village, learns that much of the tribe's food is customarily...
...Burr, Vidal (1 last week) 2-Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, Drury (2) 3-I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Craven (10) 4-Postern of Fate, Christie (9) 5-The Honorary Consul, Greene (3) 6-Theophilus North,Wilder (4) 7-The Loo Sanction, Trevanian (8) 8-The Hollow Hills,Stewart (7) 9- The First Deadly Sin, Sanders (6) 10- Tuesday The Rabbi Saw Red, Kemelman...