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The Sharpest Sight A Novel
(American Indian Literature and Critical Studies, Vol. 1)
by Louis Owens / Paperback / Published 1995
Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0806125748

Other Destinies Understanding the American Indian Novel
(American Indian Literature and Critical Studies, Vol 3)
by Louis Owens / Paperback / Published 1994
Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0806126736

Bone Game A Novel
(American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series , Vol 10)
by Louis Owens / Hardcover / Published 1994
Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0806126647 From Kirkus Reviews, August 1, 1994 "Owens returns to his Native American roots for this sprightly thriller, a sequel that lives up to its predecessor (Sharpest Sight, 1991). Cole McCurtain, a Choctaw Indian from Mississippi, is an English professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His life has been better: He's divorced and misses his daughter; he's bored with his job; a malevolent Native gambler from California's mission days is haunting his dreams (and sometimes his waking life as well); he's drinking heavily and not eating. Cole hardly takes notice when a psychopath begins killing and dismembering young women around campus. He only wants to retreat to New Mexico and fly-fish."

Bone Game A Novel
(American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series , Vol 10)
by Louis Owens / Paperback / Published 1995
University of Oklahoma Press (Trd); ISBN: 0806128410 From the publisher, July 8, 1997 "Winner of the 1994 Julian J. Rothbaum Prize Bone Game was selected by an independent panel of judges as the winner of the Julian J. Rothbaum Prize for the best book published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1994."

Mixedblood Messages A Novel Literature, Film, Family, Place
(American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, Vol 26)
by Louis Owens / Hardcover / Published 1998
Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0806130512

Dark River A Novel
(American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, Vol 30)
by Louis Owens / Paperback / Published 1999
Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0806131152 Review: A reader from Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 2, 1999 "This writer creates powerful, magical fiction. 'Dark River' by Louis Owens is as sophisticated a piece of literature, American Indian or otherwise, as readers are going to find. His work is comparable to that of Gerald Vizenor, Louise Erdrich, and Gordon Henry, Jr. when it comes to representation of cultural ideas, spirituality, and masterful storytelling. It isn’t limited to American Indian comparisons, however, because his work also bears a strong kinship to John Steinbeck, Ron Hansen, and Cormac McCarthy in its representation of place and for mature subject matter. But Owens, of Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish descent, would be the first to resist comparisons, as readers of his autobiographical work 'Mixedblood Messages' should know. Owens’s writing speaks only for Owens, not to "show what makes American Indians tick." That kind of facile comparison comes under the heading of unsophisticated or damning with faint praise. American Indians don't just come from reservations; they come from families and cultures and stories and places throughout the Americas. Read Louis Owens's wonderful stories and powerful critical essays if you want to know what Louis Owens thinks."

Nightland
by Louis Owens / Paperback / Published 1997
Signet; ISBN: 0451186834; Dimensions