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Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller
Many of the stories in Harry Robinson's second collection feature the shoo-MISH, or "nature helpers" that assist humans and sometimes provide them with special powers. Some tell of individuals who use these powers to heal themselves; others tell of Indian doctors who have been given the power to heal others. Still others tell of power encounters: a woman "comes alive" after death; a boy meets a singing squirrel; a voice from nowhere predicts the future.
"Epic, mesmerizing tales by a great Okanagan storyteller that lift [one] eerily and movingly, into a different world."
Michele Landsberg, Toronto Star
"Nowhere have I read a more productive synthesis of the Indian oral tradition and the written word. A few other books have come close, but only close."
Terry Glavin, Vancouver Sun
ISBN 0-88922-504-4; 6 x 9; 272 pp; Trade Paper
$24.95
-- Talonbooks, 2004
"Epic, mesmerizing tales by a great Okanagan storyteller that lift [one] eerily and movingly, into a different world."
Michele Landsberg, Toronto Star
"Nowhere have I read a more productive synthesis of the Indian oral tradition and the written word. A few other books have come close, but only close."
Terry Glavin, Vancouver Sun
ISBN 0-88922-504-4; 6 x 9; 272 pp; Trade Paper
$24.95
-- Talonbooks, 2004
Submitted on September 30, 2004 in By David.
