- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; Reissue edition (Sep 19 1989)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0679726217
- ISBN-13: 978-0679726210
- Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 2.5 x 20.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 508 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #860,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
"Here's a truly extraordinary first novel, poignant, lyrical, rich in myth, legend and tragic reality, " lauded PW . "Panoramic in scale and powerful in its impact," the long-out-of-print title chronicles four generations of a Washo Indian family and its relations with whites.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Rabbit Boss is a landmark work of twentieth-century American literature. A novel of dreams dying, the loss of power, the rebirth of the spirit, it is the most brilliant fictional evocation of the American West ever written. Powerful and exalting, Rabbit Boss tells the story of four generations of Washo in the California and Nevada Sierra.
"The Indian experience of the last 120 years...Rabbit Boss is of a size and scope that is awesome. Sanchez is a man of tremendous vision." -- Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
"Rabbit Boss deserves to become an American classic. A great novel, spanning a century in the life and death of an Indian tribe, told with epic perspective and infinite compassion."
-- National Observer
"Etched in unforgettable prose...Sanchez is to be congratulated."
-- Vine Deloria, Jr., author of Custer Died For Your Sins
"The Indian experience of the last 120 years...Rabbit Boss is of a size and scope that is awesome. Sanchez is a man of tremendous vision." -- Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
"Rabbit Boss deserves to become an American classic. A great novel, spanning a century in the life and death of an Indian tribe, told with epic perspective and infinite compassion."
-- National Observer
"Etched in unforgettable prose...Sanchez is to be congratulated."
-- Vine Deloria, Jr., author of Custer Died For Your Sins
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This is an unforgettable book.,
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This review is from: Rabbit Boss (Paperback)
This novel put the author's name on my must-read list. It is a powerful story of the effect of white culture on the native American. Starting with an encounter with the Donner party, it continues down to the early 30's. Parts of the novel are written in a visionary style similar to "Black Elk Speaks." There are numerous memorable characters, especially Hallelujah Bob and Captain Rex, who loses his thumbs. There is violence and tragedy. Sanchez has an excellent ear for dialogue, especially considering that this book was written when he was only 21. I have read this book three times (at over 500 pages) and recommend it to all my friends.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Yeah, this is IT!,
By pali@van.cybersurf.net (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rabbit Boss (Paperback)
Yeah, this is the one! Well, at least one of the TOP FIVE BOOKS read this year by me! Honestly, you'll get plenty of honesty in this hear piece of fict'n... purnhaps even mor'n you already know, heh? Wonderfully written, and like Kerouac used to say, it's an "Indian thing". The story follows the natural flow of generations of Washo people try to eek out a meagre existance in the "wild" west; beautifully documenting the collapse of the many layers of native culture since their "discovery".
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This is an unforgettable book.,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rabbit Boss (Paperback)
This novel put the author's name on my must-read list. It is a powerful story of the effect of white culture on the native American. Starting with an encounter with the Donner party, it continues down to the early 30's. Parts of the novel are written in a visionary style similar to "Black Elk Speaks." There are numerous memorable characters, especially Hallelujah Bob and Captain Rex, who loses his thumbs. There is violence and tragedy. Sanchez has an excellent ear for dialogue, especially considering that this book was written when he was only 21. I have read this book three times (at over 500 pages) and recommend it to all my friends.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Life-changing stuff,
By Marion Amos - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rabbit Boss (Hardcover)
I found Rabbit Boss as an impressionable 16 year old, living in a small town in the English Midlands in the mid-1970s. It's hard to say quite why it made such an unforgettable impression on me, but suffice to say that I logged on to this site to try and find THIS book - I have been searching for years. Now I find it is regarded as a canon of American fiction - and rightly so. Sanchez's brilliant evocation of a state of mind, and of a whole way of being, was entirely new to me and has haunted me ever since. The quality of the writing is simply stupendous.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Yeah, this is IT!,
By pali@van.cybersurf.net - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rabbit Boss (Paperback)
Yeah, this is the one! Well, at least one of the TOP FIVE BOOKS read this year by me! Honestly, you'll get plenty of honesty in this hear piece of fict'n... purnhaps even mor'n you already know, heh? Wonderfully written, and like Kerouac used to say, it's an "Indian thing". The story follows the natural flow of generations of Washo people try to eek out a meagre existance in the "wild" west; beautifully documenting the collapse of the many layers of native culture since their "discovery".
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