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Original Title:	Dalva
ISBN:	0671740679 (ISBN13: 9780671740672)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Dalva #1

Dalva (Dalva #1) Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

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From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way, she discovers a story that stretches from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam -- and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul.

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Title	:	Dalva (Dalva #1)
Author	:	Jim Harrison
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Contemporary Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1991 by Washington Square Press (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literary Fiction

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Three point five stars.There are several male authors who are generally regarded as having a great ability to write from the perspective of a female character. When I read these authors I disagree with the assessment, most notably because they fail to capture the true complexity that is the essence of being a woman. Jim Harrison is an exception. With the character of Dalva, he explores all the layers of conflict and identity that are part of growing up female in a patriarchal society.Dalva, at

There were things that annoyed me in reading this book, but they were overwhelmed by things I loved: interesting, mysterious, smart female protagonist; 19th c history of the Great Plains/front range of the Rockies; farms; horses; and above all Harrisons beautiful, intelligent writing about people and landscape.

Embedded in this brilliant novel is this single poignant sentence:Back on the front porch, I saw her in the far corner of the yard, pushing an empty tire swing as if it held an imaginary child.Jim Harrison can raise a lump in your throat. By this point in the book we are already in love with Dalva. She is 45, beyond intelligent, fetching, equal parts sentimental and pragmatic. She is as self-sufficient as it is possible to be. She can, as they say, ride a horse. When she was a young girl, she

Admittedly I began the book with a little dread. I just finished Wolf, Harrisons first novel and one Id first read in graduate school in 1988. I have carried a high opinion of Harrison ever since, but now I had to wonder why? What I liked about it at 26 left me cold at 53, so I was prepared for a similar reaction to Dalva, especially since Harrison would be writing in the first person as a woman, and Id happily wash out early. But Dalva is a marvel both the book and the character. Dalva is in

Dalva is named by her parents after a Portuguese song, Estrella Dalva, or Morning Star. It may suit Dalva throughout her life for she always seems to be up early enough to witness such thing. Always active, on the move. While still a teenager, Dalva falls for a half-Sioux man and makes love with him. When she becomes pregnant, she is sent off to have the baby and put it up for adoption. Dalva will never marry again, and she will never have another child. She begins a rather circuitous journey to

Dalva is probably my favorite novel by the man who is most certainly my favorite living novelist, Jim Harrison. I've probably read it five times and just read it again because of a death in my family, and because Harrison in general always grounds me in life, and gives me a renewed appreciation for being alive.It's very hard to describe how he brings that about; I'm not sure I understand, something about the way he writes the sentences, the things he notices. I've read everything he's

This is one of my favorite books. I read it while in my 20s, single, having lots of passion and adventure, falling in love and having broken hearts, piecing together jobs, rent, moving over and over, and college....this book was like my doppelgänger as well as my comfort and re-focus guide. It helped my wounded heart heal, celebrated my independent spirit and my adventures, and gently whispered to me about the right path to aim toward. Like a good big sister. Hard to believe a man wrote it, but