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Sorrow of the earth : Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the tragedy of show business / Eric Vuillard ; translated from the French by Ann Jefferson.
- Title
- Sorrow of the earth : Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the tragedy of show business / Eric Vuillard ; translated from the French by Ann Jefferson.
- Author
- Vuillard, Éric
- Publication
- London : Pushkin Press, 2016.
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ2682.U45 T7513 2016 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Jefferson, Ann (Translator)
- Description
- 155 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "This astonishing work of historical re-imagining tells the little-known story of the Native Americans swallowed up by Buffalo Bill's great entertainment machine"--Book jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Tristesse de la terre. English
- Alternative Title
- Tristesse de la terre.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- History
- Fiction.
- History.
- Note
- First published in French as Tristesse de la terre in 2014.
- Tells the story of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in a narrative story form.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Museum of Mankind -- What is the seence of spectacle? -- An actor -- Buffalo Bill in Alsace-Lorraine -- The massacre at Wounded Knee -- Buying a child -- The "Battle" of Wounded Knee -- The town of Cody -- Reality isn't what it used to be -- The princes of entertainment die in sorrow -- Histories -- Snow
- ISBN
- 9781782272212
- 1782272216
- OCLC
- 958125221
- SCSB-12606598
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library