John Medicinewolf

By Michael E. Moon

Book Overview

John Medicinewolf by MICHAEL E. MOON "Occupation?" demands the questionnaire from the white man's world. "Paperboy," replies John Medicinewolf. Or, depending on his mood and on who's asking, he... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803742207
• ISBN13: 9780803742208
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Dial Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Openhearted & underrated

Probably one of the last artistic creations from the post-60s/late-70s era, this fine novel brings the reader into a gentle, mellow world (with an occasional splash of blood & sorrow) ... the world as experienced by John Medicinewolf. The book has no plot as such, and needs none. It's simply the narrator relating what his day-to-day, year-to-year life is like in plain, direct prose, clear & refreshing as springwater. He's a storyteller, a bit of a philosopher, going off on interesting tangents as one story suggests & leads into another. And as the book continues, we get the feel for life in the wilderness, just off the edges of modern life, with a warm, loving, strong-minded wife & two small children, an assortment of off-the-map friends, and even the occasional dream visit from a dead grandfather. I'm reminded a bit of Richard Brautigan & the Jack Kerouac who was a Dharma Bum when reading this book, although it's no mere imitation, but an original voice & vision. Well worth searching out, recommended as a memory of a world that's vanishing, and definitely worth reprinting!