Name: The Ice-Shirt
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Author: William T. Vollmann
ISBN: 9780140131963

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Publisher

Penguin

Author

William T. Vollmann

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Paperback

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ISBN

0140131965

ISBN13

9780140131963

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Synopsis "The Ice-Shirt "

A majestic fictional evocation of the Norse arrival in the New World, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central Watch for Vollmann’s new work of nonfiction, No Immediate Danger, coming in April of 2018The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call "Vinland the Good." The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples--and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise--he creates a tour-de-force of speculative history, a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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