Truth and Bright Water

Truth and Bright Water

Truth and Bright Water is a coming-of-age novel by Thomas King set in the Canadian Prairies on the U.S./Canadian border. The novel embeds a number of magical features within painstakingly realist prose, showing its affiliation with Magic realism. Truth, a small town in rural Montana, and Bright Water, a reserve across the Canadian-American border, are separated by a river. The first person narrator, a 15-year-old Native American youth, Tecumseh , watches a strange woman jump off the cliff into the river that marks the border. His companions are Lum, his cousin, and Soldier, his boxer dog....
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Author:Thomas King
Genre:Novel, Fiction
Number of editions:4

Author of Truth and Bright Water

Thomas King
Thomas King
Age:69

Thomas King, CM is a noted novelist and broadcaster who most often writes about North America's First Nations. He is an advocate for First Nations causes. He is of Cherokee and Greek descent. In 2003, King was invited to give the Massey Lecture, the first person of aboriginal descent to be chosen....
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Medicine River
Coyote's New Suit
A Short History of Indians in Canada
The Red Power Murders
Dead Dog Cafe
A Coyote Columbus Story
Consolidated of Baltimore, 1816-1950
Magpies
second part of T. King's catalogue of books, for M.DCC.LXXXVIII. ... now selling ... by Thomas King, ..
Elsevier's Integrated Pathology
The Truth about Stories
Round Dance
120 Years-Tough Hockey
Appendix to T. King's catalogue for 1792. Containing a small assemblage of books, ... are now selling, January 1793, ... by Thomas King, ..
English and foreign portraits, miscellaneous prints, &c
Hubert Kiecol
All My Relations
Carlow, the Manor and Town, 1674-1721
Green Grass, Running Water Postmodernism
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Literary Genres

Novel
Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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