Walker and the Ghost Dance

by Derek Walcott

Book Overview

Dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In Ghost Dance , first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion -- Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents -- into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374528144
• ISBN13: 9780374528140
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.4" x 10.2"