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001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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1225621102 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20240131141647.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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201205t20212020nyu 000 f eng d |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780062671196 |
Qualifying information |
paperback |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Language of cataloging |
eng |
Description conventions |
rda |
Transcribing agency |
JRU Library |
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
PS3555.R42 |
Item number |
N54 2021 |
060 #4 - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
E 78.G73 |
Item number |
E66n 2021 |
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
813.54 |
Item number |
.Er66 2021 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Erdrich, Louise, |
Relator term |
author |
9 (RLIN) |
149392 |
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
The night watchman : |
Remainder of title |
a novel / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Louise Erdrich |
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Harper Perennial, |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2021 |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
First Harper Perennial edition. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
451 pages ; |
Dimensions |
21 cm |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content type term |
text |
Content type code |
txt |
Source |
rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
Media type term |
unmediated |
Media type code |
n |
Source |
rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
Carrier type term |
volume |
Carrier type code |
nc |
Source |
rdacarrier |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
Based on the extraordinary life of Louis Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new "emancipation" bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom: Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a "termination" that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans "for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run"? Since graduating from high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that pays barely enough to support her mother and younger brother. Patrice's alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children, and to bully Patrice for money. But Patrice needs every penny to follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn't been in touch in months and is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of exploitation and violence and endangers her life. Thomas and Patrice live in a reservation community. We also come to know young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother, Juggie Blue, and Patrice's best friend, Valentine, as well as Hay Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice. In The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions, of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. -- |
Assigning source |
Back cover |
521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE |
Target audience note |
Adult |
Price |
0.00 |
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
Language note |
Text in English |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Indians of North America |
Geographic subdivision |
North Dakota |
Form subdivision |
Fiction |
9 (RLIN) |
149393 |
|
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Ojibwa Indians |
Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
9 (RLIN) |
149394 |
|
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Indians of North America |
General subdivision |
Government relations |
Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
9 (RLIN) |
149395 |
|
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Indian termination policy |
Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
9 (RLIN) |
149396 |
|
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Dysfunctional families |
Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
9 (RLIN) |
142350 |
|
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Missing persons |
Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
9 (RLIN) |
140209 |
|
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Federal government |
9 (RLIN) |
41417 |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
Koha item type |
Print Materials |