The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1)
William T. Vollmann
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· 12 ratings · 432 pages · Published: 27 Mar 1990
As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise he creates a tour-de-force of speculative history, a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.
--back cover
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The 'Seven Dreams' series
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