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The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch (2000, Hardcover) 
The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch (2000, Hardcover)

 
The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch (2000, Hardcover)

Author: James Welch
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0385496745
ISBN-13: 9780385496742
Product ID: EPID1620113
Description: Welch's novel is about a young Sioux boy, Charging Elk, an expert horseman and a witness to the massacre at Little Big Horn. Discovered by Buffalo Bill, he becomes a star rider in his Wild West show. The show goes on tour in Europe, wher...
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Synopsis
Welch's novel is about a young Sioux boy, Charging Elk, an expert horseman and a witness to the massacre at Little Big Horn. Discovered by Buffalo Bill, he becomes a star rider in his Wild West show. The show goes on tour in Europe, where they are a huge hit. Life is good until Charging Elk becomes ill and lands in a Marseille hospital while the show goes on without him. Upon his release into that decadent and dangerous city, the boy becomes involved in the demi-monde when he falls in love with a prostitute.

Details
Publication Date:2000-09-01

Size
Length:440 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:27.2 oz

Publisher's Note
A witness to the battle of Little Big Horn as a child, Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, is recruited by Buffalo Bill Cody to join his Wild West show, which creates a sensation in the capital cities of Europe, until he is left behind--because of illness and a bureaucractic mix-up--in the strange, unfamiliar world of Marseille. By the author of Fools Crow.

Industry Reviews
"Despite some contrived plot twists, Welch's study of a man forced to adapt to a world utterly unlike his own--and a richly imagined world it is--is well sustained. An amply rewarding read."
Kirkus Reviews (06/01/2000)

"Despite uneven pacing and boilerplate plot twists, Welch does provide a vivid, unsentimental portrayal of Charging Elk. In fact, Welch pulls no punches ridiculing the white liberals and so- called Christians who want to help. In these passages, clearly, Welch is drawing cross-century comparisons to combat the image of the 'noble savage' that persists to this day."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Mark Luce (08/20/2000)

"THE HEARTSONG OF CHARGING ELK is the melancholy revision of [the] optimism about the meeting of cultures. It is the coming-of-age story in the key of tragedy."
New York Times Book Review - Brigitte Frase (10/01/2000)

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