Ebook {Epub PDF} Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis

In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship,community, and forgiveness will carve out a /5(K). Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival (Kindle Edition) Published November 5th by Harper Perennial Kindle Edition, pages.  · In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community, and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).

Velma Wallis (5 November ). Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival. Harper Perennial. ISBN (reprint ) Velma Wallis: Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend Of Betrayal, Courage And Survival, The Women's Press Ltd, (UK), , p., ISBN , ISBN "Two Old Women speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom." -- Ursula K. Le Guin "A beautiful and moving book. Velma Wallis's writing is as lean and muscular, as full of unexpected bounties, as the far north, and readers are sure to be delighted with Two Old Women."-- Washington Post "Full of adventure, suspense, and obstacles overcome—an octogenarian. Based on an Athabascan legend passed along from mother to daughter for many generations on the upper Yukon River in Alaska, this is the tragic and shocking story--with a surprise ending--of two elderly women abandoned by a migrating tribe that faces starvation brought on by unusually harsh Arctic weather and a shortage of fish and game. The story of survival is told with suspense by Velma.

an alaska legend of betrayal, courage and survival by Velma Wallis ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 15, Enchanting retelling—and a Western States Book Award winner—of a tribal legend about two old women, left behind to die, who instead went on to survive and thrive. In fact, it seems difficult to separate Velma Wallis from the imagery of hardship and the mere pursuit of survival itself - which is actually the underlying theme of her first and widely successful effort as a writer, Two Old Women. Inspired by an old Athabaskan legend passed on by Wallis' mother, Two Old Women follows Sa' and Ch'idzigyaak as they struggle to coexist with an unrelenting Nature as well as conquer extreme old age after being abandoned by their own tribe for fear that the two. Inspired by an old Athabaskan legend passed on by Wallis' mother, Two Old Women follows Sa' and Ch'idzigyaak as they struggle to coexist with an unrelenting Nature as well as conquer extreme old age after being abandoned by their own tribe for fear that the two elders would cripple any chance of surviving the harsh winter.