Eric Vuillard

Sorrow of the Earth (eBook, ePUB)

Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Tragedy of Show Business
Übersetzer: Jefferson, Ann

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fascinating, brilliant and angry: the tale of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and the tragic fate of its Native American participants

Buffalo Bill was the prince of show business. His spectacular Wild West shows were performed to packed houses across the world, holding audiences spellbound with their grand re-enactments of tales from the American frontier. For Bill gave the crowds something they'd never seen before: real-life Indians.

This astonishing work of historical re-imagining tells the little-known story of the Native Americans swallowed up by Buffalo Bill's great entertainment machine. Of chief Sitting Bull, paraded in theatres to boos and catcalls for fifty dollars a week. Of a baby Lakota girl, found under her mother's frozen body, adopted and displayed on the stage. Of the last few survivors of Wounded Knee, hired to act out the horrific massacre of their tribe as entertainment. And of Buffalo Bill Cody himself, hamming it to the last, even as¿it consumed him.

Told with beauty, compassion and anger, Sorrow of the Earth shows us tragedy turned into a circus act, history into sham, truth into a spectacle more powerful than reality itself. Could any of us turn away?

Born in Lyon in 1968, Éric Vuillard ¿is a French author and film director.¿His books include Conquistadors (winner of the Ignatius J. Reilly Prize 2010), and La Bataille de l'occident and Congo, which were jointly awarded the 2012 Franz-Hessel prize and the 2013 Valery-Larbaud prize. Sorrow of the Earth is the first of his books to be translated into English.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782272823
• Artikelnr.: 45723803

Autorenporträt

Born in Lyon in 1968, Éric Vuillard is a French author and film director. His books include Conquistadors (winner of the Ignatius J. Reilly prize 2010), La Bataille de l'occident and Congo, for both of which he was awarded the 2012 Franz-Hessel prize and the 2013 Valery-Larbaud prize, as well as L'ordre du jour, for which he was awarded the 2017 Goncourt Prize. Sorrow of the Earth is the first of his titles to be translated into English.