Paper Trail: Essays

by Michael Dorris

Book Overview

A collection of essays from the anthropologist, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novelist and non-fiction writer, Michael Dorris. The book reveals his thoughts and perspective on his life, work and education. Dorris is the author of The Broken Cord and Working Men, Morning Girl.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060169710
• ISBN13: 9780060169718
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

ESSAYS ARE BOTH PERCEPTIVE AND PERSUASIVE

Thoughtfully charismatic, Michael Dorris touches upon subjects that can curve a smile or bring a tear. In this, a collection of essays published during the 1980s and 1990s in periodicals throughout America, Dorris brings his chronicler's eye and compassionate heart to the thoughts he shares. Beginning with selections titled "Family Occasions," the author takes us back to his youth as he lovingly reminisces about the mother and grandmother who raised him after his father's death. The plight of contemporary Native Americans is dramatically documented in another section titled "Learning From Mistakes." This variegated collection is both perceptive and persuasive.

Discover a wonderful writer through these essays, as I did.

I want to tell you that heaven is richer by one wonderful communicator. I have devoured everything Louise Erdrich ever wrote and always wondered what kind of wonderful husband supported that writer. I treated myself to Paper Trail to celebrate getting through grad school midterms. The book is a baum to the soul of anyone who cares about relationships between people, children, the disadvantaged, the state of Indian Affairs in this country. My prayers to you all. Us "half-breed-Irish" will go on; we always do, but without our Michael. Tanis Good Gloe