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Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff (1995, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679761810

ISBN-139780679761815

eBay Product ID (ePID)614324

Product Key Features

Book TitleOnce Were Warriors

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1995

TopicCultural Heritage, Family Life, Native American & Aboriginal

GenreFiction

AuthorAlan Duff

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight6.4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN94-040298

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"A searing look at the urban subculture of New Zealand's native people." -- Toronto Globe and Mail "A starkly realistic account...as important, as frank, as powerful a book as [Alice Walker's The Color Purple] was for Americans." Dominion (New Zealand)

Dewey Decimal823.2

SynopsisOnce Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence, Once Were Warriors is a masterpiece of unblinking realism, irresistible energy, and great sorrow., Already a smash motion picture from Fine Line Features in New Zealand, this raw and deeply affecting story has also garnered major literary awards abroad. A contemporary story about an urban family in New Zealand, the book combines the action and mood of Blade Runner with the triumph of A Raisin in the Sun.

LC Classification NumberPR9639.3.D792O5 1995