Diane Glancy

• Mar-1993
• / General Fiction
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Incorporating elements of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, Diane Glancy’s stories are lyrical yet down to earth, often tough and gritty. Experimental, sometimes surreal in form, they nevertheless concern people who are very real-a color-b...

• Jun-1995
• / General Fiction
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Monkey Secret collects three short stories and a powerful novella by the Cherokee-German-English poet and prose writer Diane Glancy. Her tales of Native American life explore that essential American territory, the border-between: between past and pre...

• Jan-1996
• / General Fiction
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The book transcends the dead end topic of 'race'--an issue that necessarily invites conflict--and concentrates instead upon culture, in all its nebulous, universal and unmistakable influence.--Pacific Reader...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical
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In a novel that “retains the complexity, immediacy, and indirection of a poem,” Glancy brings to life the Cherokees’ 900-mile forced removal to Oklahoma in 1838 and gives us “a powerful witness to one of the most shameful episodes in american...

• Jan-1999
• / General Fiction
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Poetry. Alongside the rise of Native American writers such as Sherman Alexie and Louise Erdrich, writers like Diane Glancy have been quietly expoloring other possiblities for Native American writing. Infused with a religious sensibility, peopled by t...

• Jul-1999
• / Christian
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Fuller Man takes place in rural Missouri and is written in Diane Glancy's characteristic style: rich in setting and personality. It is the story of Hadley and the Williges family; it is also a story about faith - religious faith and faith in humanity...

• Sep-2001
• / Literary
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In this haunting novel by celebrated Native American author Diane Glancy, an unnamed man driving a lonely Minnesota highway hears the voice of the land -- but he can't make out what it has said. The man is a professor who teaches a 'Literature and th...

• Apr-2002
• / General Fiction
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In "The Mask Maker, "Diane Glancy tells the story of Edith Lewis, a recently divorced mixed-blood American Indian, as she travels the state of Oklahoma teaching students the art and custom of mask-making. A complex, subtle tale about f1esh-and-blo...

• Apr-2004
• / Historical
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Journeying alongside Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the west, young Shoshoni Sacajawea records her spiritual experiences, which include her observances of the natural world's messages. By the author of Pushing the Bear. Reprint. 15,00...

• Oct-2005
• / General Fiction
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Diane Glancy sees books as being akin to maps,and often finds the Native American voices she writes about as she travels. Once, when driving through western Nevada, she stopped at Grant Mountain and Walker Lake, where the Ghost Dance began and sti...

• Sep-2007
• / Fantasy
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Thirteen-year-old Flutie lives on the edge of an enormous quiet that she wants to transcend. Her family's life in Western Oklahoma, her father's job repairing old cars and tractors, her brother's betrayal, and her mother's indifference are all parts ...

• Mar-2009
• / Science Fiction
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The story of a seventeenth-century Mohawk woman’s interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the religion they brought.

In The Reason for Crows, award-winning author Diane Glancy continues her project begun in Pushing the Bear: A Novel of t...

• Jul-2011
• / General Fiction
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In this innovative novel, a librarian of Cherokee ancestry rekindles and reinvents her Native identity by discovering the rhythm and spark of traditionally told stories in the most unusual places in the modern world. Ada Ronner, a librarian at Northe...

• May-2015
• / Literary
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A minister's wife finds herself in hell. The story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:19-31 gives a chilling insight into the afterlife. It is a story that is not often addressed because it makes clear the separation of people upon death. Frank W...

• May-2016
• / General Fiction
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Issue two of See the Elephant: Love and War in the Slipstream features new stories by Diane Glancy, Karen Heuler, James Van Pelt, Cassandra Khaw, F. Brett Cox, Michael Canfield, Alana I. Capria, Rose Wednesday, Jane Lebak, Kristen Falso-Capaldi, Bria...

• Apr-2017
• / General Fiction
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Crippled in childhood, Mary Wesley, sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, speaks of the Wesley household in first-person narrative built on the facts of her life.
Mary lived in a strict Christian family, one of 19 children, 10 ...

• Jun-2017
• / Christian
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Love in one form or another is the commanding force of this new collection of short fiction. The Servitude of Love holds the revelations of love in different manifestations--love of work, love of another, love of journey, love of mission, love of jus...

• Jul-2017
• / Christian
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No Word for the Sea is built on several layers of questioning: What is language? What is memory? Where does the mind go when the circuits shut down? The novel covers seven years in the lives of Solome and Stephen Savard in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stephe...

• Oct-2021
• / Historical
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A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE, 2021 Diane Glancy once again puts Indigenous women at the center of American history in her account of a young Inupiat woman who survived a treacherous arctic expedition alone. "This moving retelling of a heroic w...