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9780152008888

Trickster and the Fainting Birds

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  • ISBN13:

    9780152008888

  • ISBN10:

    0152008888

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary

With spare grace and lively wit, acclaimed author Howard Norman chronicles the hilarious antics of a provocative troublemaker. Whether cheating in a sleepwalking contest, teaching the shut-eye dance to ducks, or halting a wedding by transforming the groom into a kingfisher, Trickster sets the world askew. Like trickster figures the world round, this Algonquian mischief-maker prods our imagination and makes us laugh deep in our hearts. In forty-two luminescent, richly detailed paintings, Tom Pohrt follows Tricksters trailacross frozen lakes and thawing marsheson a journey that carries us from trouble, to laughter, and, finally, to wisdom.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Endless Wandering, Endless Mischiefp. ix
Trickster and the Best Hermitp. 1
Trickster and the Shut-Eye Dancersp. 13
Trickster Tells Whiskey Jack the Truthp. 29
Trickster and the Walking Contestp. 39
Trickster and the Clacking Sleevesp. 49
Trickster and the Night-Tailed Weaselsp. 61
Trickster and the Fainting Birdsp. 71
Story Notesp. 81
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