Bring Me One of Everything

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Native American
Cover of the book Bring Me One of Everything by Leslie Hall Pinder, Tellwell Talent
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Leslie Hall Pinder ISBN: 9780228814641
Publisher: Tellwell Talent Publication: April 25, 2019
Imprint: Tellwell Talent Language: English
Author: Leslie Hall Pinder
ISBN: 9780228814641
Publisher: Tellwell Talent
Publication: April 25, 2019
Imprint: Tellwell Talent
Language: English

Bring Me One of Everything is a novel which weaves real-life facts and fiction into an eloquent tale of suspense and intrigue. The title of the book is based on what the management of the Smithsonian is said to have demanded when sending ethnographers to native villages to gather artifacts for its collection: "Bring me one of everything." The novel is several layered stories centered around a troubled writer, Alicia Purcell, who has been commissioned to create the libretto for an opera about an anthropologist named Austin Hart. He earned fame in the 1950s for cutting down and bringing back to museums the largest remaining stand of totem poles in the world. They belonged to the Haida tribes who inhabit the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia. Hart's subsequent suicide creates the mystery Alicia attempts to solve as she consults present-day tribe members, Hart's friends and family, and his personal journals. Added to the complications of her search are Alicia's imperious though ailing mother, a cast-off lover, a narcissistic composer, and her own demons of disaffection. But an overarching question dogs her and the reader: why she is so obsessed with Austin Hart and this quest?

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Bring Me One of Everything is a novel which weaves real-life facts and fiction into an eloquent tale of suspense and intrigue. The title of the book is based on what the management of the Smithsonian is said to have demanded when sending ethnographers to native villages to gather artifacts for its collection: "Bring me one of everything." The novel is several layered stories centered around a troubled writer, Alicia Purcell, who has been commissioned to create the libretto for an opera about an anthropologist named Austin Hart. He earned fame in the 1950s for cutting down and bringing back to museums the largest remaining stand of totem poles in the world. They belonged to the Haida tribes who inhabit the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia. Hart's subsequent suicide creates the mystery Alicia attempts to solve as she consults present-day tribe members, Hart's friends and family, and his personal journals. Added to the complications of her search are Alicia's imperious though ailing mother, a cast-off lover, a narcissistic composer, and her own demons of disaffection. But an overarching question dogs her and the reader: why she is so obsessed with Austin Hart and this quest?

More books from Tellwell Talent

Cover of the book Claude Ranger by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book Through a Darker Eye by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book My New Life in Vancouver by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book Murder in the Fourth by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book Louis XVII Survived the Temple Prison by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book The Power of Boredom by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book The Agony (Wahala) of King Zontaba II by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book A Six Volume Michael Overleaves Appendix by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book A Young Man's Quest for Love and Independence by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book The Basket Weaver by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book A Stone in the Road by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book Veterans Gardening Guide by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book Astrology the People's Psychology by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book Sentinels of the Deep by Leslie Hall Pinder
Cover of the book Seventeen and Trying to Survive by Leslie Hall Pinder
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy