The Death of Jim Loney
James Welch never shied away from depicting the lives of Native Americans damned by destiny and temperament to the margins of society. The Death of Jim Loney is no exception. Jim Loney is a mixed-blood, of white and Indian parentage. Estranged from both communities, he lives a solitary, brooding existence in a small Montana town. His nights are filled with disturbing dreams that haunt his waking hours. Rhea, his lover, cannot console him; Kate, his sister, cannot penetrate his world. In sparse, moving prose, Welch has crafted a riveting tale of disenfranchisement and self-destruction.
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July 29, 2008James Welch (1940 – 2003) was the author of the novels Winter in the Blood, The Death of Jim Loney, Fools Crow (for which he received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an American Book Award, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award), The Indian Lawyer, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk. Welch also wrote a nonfiction book, Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians, and a work of poetry, Riding the Earthboy 40. He attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations in Montana, graduated from the University of Montana, where he studied writing with the late Richard Hugo, and served on the Montana State Board of Pardons.
Winter in the Blood
James Welch; Foreword by Joy Harjo; Introduction by Louise Erdrich
Fools Crow
James Welch; Introduction by Thomas McGuane
The Death of Jim Loney
James Welch
Winter in the Blood
James Welch; Foreword by Joy Harjo; Introduction by Louise Erdrich
Indian Lawyer
James Welch
Killing Custer
James Welch;Paul Stekler
Riding the Earthboy 40
James Welch
The Heartsong of Charging Elk
James Welch