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Win Blevins
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Pages: 544 (Mass Market Paperback)
ISBN: 0812533690
Pub: Saint Martin's Press
Pub date: 1998-05
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1068222
Reader Reviews:
Good things.... (0/0 people found this helpful)
This book is easily one of the best I have ever read. I have a huge interest in the American Indians and have read many books. For anyone with a vague interest or wanting a good book to read this is perfect. Crazy Horse is a true hero and, I believe, this book captures his essence and brings him across just as he was. I found when I was reading it I got totally immersed in it. When it came to the latter part of the book I just did not want it to end! Great book.....
A Classic Book about a True Hero (2/2 people found this helpful)
This book affected me like few others. I expected a well written, historical work of fiction on Native Americans - of which I've read a few. What I got was a story that followed me around for weeks and beyond. Blevins did an excellent of portraying the internal struggles of Crazy Horse - his desires, his anger, and his spiritual passion as well as his ultimate integrity and bravery. This is the story of one of the greatest men in history - a true hero. Blevins makes you understand why.
This was an excellent book!!! (0/0 people found this helpful)
After "Gone With the Wind", "Stone Song" was the best book I have ever read!!!
Inside the tipi (2/2 people found this helpful)
I have read several books about Native Americans by white authors. Somehow I always felt outside of the culture. Stone Song is the first book to invite me into the tipi. Blevins goes far beyond the historical record to capture the spirit of Crazy Horse. By doing so he takes the white reader to unknown places in spirit and mind. This is a must read for lovers of Native American literature.
A moving and deeply spiritual novel of Crazy Horse's life (2/2 people found this helpful)
Win Blevins set out in this novel to give us both the "story" of His Crazy Horse, the great Sioux leader, and to paint a penetrating and moving portrait of his inner spiritual life. He succeeds wonderfully. Blevins researched the life of His Crazy Horse and the Sioux culture extensively before writing, and this research enabled him to tell a detailed, imaginative, and very moving story. We see the great vision that His Crazy Horse was given early in life, and how he struggled to remain true to it. He wrestles with the conflicting impulses within him - warrior, visionary, passionate lover, a great but isolated leader whose own people didn't understand him. We also become immersed in the traditional life of the Sioux in their last years of freedom, and experience the beauty and tragedy of their struggle to remain free as the white world collides with theirs. If you're like me, Stone Song will leave you hungry to find your own vision and to bravely engage in the battle to remain true to it.
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