Title: The last rattlesnake throw and other stories
Description: Ralph Salisbury tells stories of violent conflict and the triumphant will to live, as experienced by Cherokees in contemporary America. The realities of war and its ongoing effects, racial injustice, crime, disharmony between the sexes, and a sense of rootlessness and alienation are balanced by a questing for love, a will to resist both inner and outer evil, and a determination to endure.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Indians of North America, Manners and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author)
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century