The Dying Grass, William T. Vollmann
The Dying Grass, William T. Vollmann
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The Dying Grass
A Novel of the Nez Perce War

Author: William T. Vollmann

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Unabridged: 53 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/13/2015

Synopsis

The National Book Award winner takes readers inside the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann's main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer. Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an original style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, The Dying Grass is another mesmerizing achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time.

About William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Whores for Gloria, The Royal Family, and Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories (including The Rainbow Stories and The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction), a memoir, and eight works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian on December 13, 2018

ALTERNATE REALITY: This News Just to Hand: The unabridged edition of "The Dying Grass" is slated for release on November 23, 2020. It's believed to have another 720 pages and 34 illustrations by the author... ...oh no, it can't be true! (Shome mishtake, shurely? Ed.) AVERSE: Leaves From You I Yield Nest......more

Goodreads review by Darrell on December 19, 2023

Before it was called The United States of America. In 1865 there was approximately nine and one-half million Buffaloes. Also, there was 165,000 Pawnees, Sioux, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes. Including other tribes that are not mentioned. The white man came and saw the land and wanted it for themselves. Bu......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on August 14, 2015

A remarkable achievement. One from each side who made the deepest impression on me Charles Erskine Scott Wood - [URL not allowed] Looking Glass - [URL not allowed] And here, because it is well worth reading, is the Nez Perce creation myth: This story tells......more

Goodreads review by Zadignose on October 13, 2015

The Dying Grass appears to me as a culmination of all that Vollmann has been developing through his other works that I have read. We can see more of what I've termed "his shifting-narrative-voice tricks, as seen in Rifles, and starkly displayed in Europe Central," but I have subsequently been inform......more

Goodreads review by Jonfaith on September 11, 2015

Indeed we are setting fire; we are burning the dying grass; we shall kill these Bluecoats as they have killed our people; we shall catch them all on fire. Mighty brave, seeing you still here, son. Not many in a proper mind would keep pushing, over 1200 pages. Means you got "sand". Do you pray, young R......more

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