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Book details
  • Genre:FICTION
  • SubGenre:General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:170
  • eBook ISBN:9781620950753

What To Do?

by Arnold Krupat

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Overview
This is a novel, a unified work that is made up of a number of mostly inter-linked parts all bearing, in one way or another, on the question, What are we to do with our lives?
Description
What to Do? a novel is a single, unified work made up of a number of mostly inter-linked parts all bearing, in one way or another, on the question, What are we to do with our lives? One character who re-appears at different points in the book is a middle-aged, rural widow whose son has mentioned to her that no one ever seems to have written out--spelled out--all the numbers from one to one million. Alone and with time on her hands, she sets out to do that. Another character is a southern black man who served in World War ii. He returns home and eventually builds a personal library of books, an act that both wins him praise and a good deal of trouble. Yet another character is a Native American from the southwest who, as a very young man attempts to heed a vision he has received from a Nighthawk, and, later in life, attempts to replace that vision with something more positive. Other characters also appear as they "do" one thing or another.
About the author
Arnold Krupat has authored, edited, or co-edited a dozen academic books studying Native American literatures. He has also published a novel, Woodsmen, or Thoreau & the Indians.