Fiction Book Review: Bone Game by Louis Owens, Author.
A Native American Richard Condon might have conjured up this neatly plotted thriller, a wonderful companion to Owens's two previous novels, The Sharpest Sight (1992) and Bone Game (1994). The story begins with a very real bang when part-Cherokee ranchers and lifelong friends Billy Keene and Will Striker come upon a dead body and a suitcase containing a million dollars.
Louis Owens offers a critical introduction and thirteen essays arranged into three sections: “Owens and the World,” “Owens and California,” and “The Novels.” The essays present an excellent assessment of Owens’s literary legacy, noting his contributions to American literature, ethnic literature, and Native American literature and highlighting his contributions to a variety of.
Complete summary of Louis Owens' The Sharpest Sight. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Sharpest Sight.
Owens writes with sharp, precise imagery, dramatic dialogue, poetic description, and a vivid sense of place to produce a novel that is far more than a genre mystery. We'll Help Your Grades Soar.
Clear Waters: A Conversation with Louis Owens. John Purdy. Educator, scholar, novelist, Louis Owens has numerous volumes to his credit, including the highly acclaimed Other Destines: Understanding the American Indian Novel and two critical studies of John Steinbeck.He also has a collection of essays--Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place--in production, due for a Fall release.
Essays of mixed quality on mixed issues by a writer of mixed ethnicity. A resident of the Choctaw-Cherokee-Welsh-Irish-Cajun mixed space lying in between —unhyphenated cultures,— University of Oklahoma English professor and novelist Owens (The Sharpest Sight, 1992) writes acutely of a generally accepted fact of American life: that most of us come from mixed backgrounds, our pedigrees a.
Folder 11: Louis Owens on Steinbeck and the American Indian Folder 12: John Steinbeck’s Re-vision of America by Louis Owens- Draft Folder 13: American Indian Studies Program Folder 14: Book Reviews (April 1997) Folder 15: Bone Game, Nightland- Articles, Reviews (1993-1997).