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School for tricksters : a novel in stories / Chris Gavaler.

Title
School for tricksters : a novel in stories / Chris Gavaler.
Author
Gavaler, Chris
Publication
Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 2011.

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TextRequest in advance PS3607.A984 S36 2011Off-site

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Description
228 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Buffalo Child Long Lance, 1890-1932 > Fiction
  • Thorpe, Jim, 1887-1953 > Fiction
  • United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) > Fiction
  • Off-reservation boarding schools > Carlisle > Fiction
  • Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > Fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Education -- Sylvester becomes an Indian -- Ivy stands on a bridge -- Sylvester loses his virginity -- Ivy works for strangers -- Sylvester runs in circles -- Ivy is accosted -- Sylvester pretends to search for a missing child -- Ivy wants to go home -- Assimilation -- Ivy's father tells the truth -- Sylvester makes a name for himself -- Big Jim becomes his father -- The greatest all-around athlete in modern history adds a word -- Phyllis Thaxter becomes Ivy Miller -- Sports illustrated interviews Marianne Moore -- Sylvester goes home -- Coda: Ivy poses.
ISBN
  • 9780870745638 (alk. paper)
  • 0870745638 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010022462
OCLC
634743091
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library