Word: ruesch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HANS RUESCH...
Their sorrows (and joys) are the stuff of this factually sound, stark, deft novel. A sequel to Author Ruesch's widely praised Top of the World (1950), it traces the adventures of Papik and his wife Vivi. Their lives are as simple and stylized as an ivory snow knife. She chews hides and sews them into waterproof clothes. He hunts, knowing how to convince the wary seal that he is also a seal until he spears it. Together, they try to have a son-another provider. Girls are of no use; the parents stuff their first-born daughter...
...anthropological fascination Ruesch adds sardonic bite by contrasting The Men with white men. Every Eskimo knows that whites are comic. A favorite Inuit joke involves Admiral Peary's trek to the North Pole: What did he find there? Punch line: "Nothing, absolutely nothing!" Hilarious...