About this title: With a totally fresh voice--carefully controlled yet without artifice--Thomas King presents a complex web of character, myth, folklore, and very contemporary experience. Green Grass, Running Water is a rich tale that ranges from a Blackfoot reservation to Hollywood, weaving magical humor, revisionist history, nostalgia and sacred humanity into one bright fabric.
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"This is one of those stories where as you read it, you realize that you aren't picking up everything the author is laying down. I loved his character development. I read this one while living in the area the book is set in--what a perfect way to read a book!"
"I love the writing style of Thomas King. His stories flow and his characters have a real vibrancy and life. Plus, who can argue with a story that is told with the help of coyote."
The novel has four movements, each of which begin with a "creation story" of sorts. King is mocking the grandiosity and fixities of the storied biblical tradition, fusing these dominant/dominating narratives with characters from the western literary canon, old hollywood and Indian pop culture. The story begins with Old Coyote: the mythic force in charge of it all. Coyote has a dream, and the dream starts to believe that it's in charge of the world. The dream says , "I want to be Coyote" and Coyote says, "no, sorry, that identity's taken. You can be dog." But, of course, in all his consequent confusion, dog gets confused and starts calling himself god. The rest, of course, is (biblical)history. These creation stories diverge wildly from the canonical versions. All circulate around a central female figure who encounters other mythical characters (There's First Woman who meets the Lone Ranger, there's Thought Woman who meets Robinson Crusoe, there's Changing Woman who meets Ishmael).
The mythical, creation-like stories, are inserted in between the flashes of narrative culled from a group of characters on/near/related to a reservation in Alberta. They're all connected in a strange web of relations that only becomes coherent the more we read. They're interrupted by myth (and some of mythic characters, including a new talking coyote, the Lone Ranger, Robinson Crusoe, Ishmael, and Hawkeye) actually become characters in the story. The patterns in the narrative, the little fractured tidbits of story, actually, remind me of that film "Shortcuts". The book was published in 1993, so maybe there are some late 1990s stylistic decisions being made here.
At any rate,it sounds complex, but I think the approach is actually deceptively simple. King presents a well-executed illustration of a cosmology in which myth and daily life are improvisationally, circularly, fused. Haunting, gothic figural truths or sacralities have no place here. Rather, what we have to work with (to read, to understand) is a net of people who (whether they like it or not) are somehow bound together in a complicated enterprise which serves no real teleological purpose but, instead, generates story on top of story, on top of story."
"I enjoyed this book. The beginning was a little confusing, and I think there were some loose ends left untied- I still don't get how everyone is related, and I would have liked to know what happens with Alberta. It seemed more to me like the characters just accepted whatever happened to them rather than making decisions about how things would turn out. Overall it was a good story and I liked the comedic input on Coyote's part."
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