Forrest Carter (1925–1979)
Autore di Piccolo albero: romanzo
Sull'Autore
Forrest Carter (1925-71) also wrote Josey Wales: Two Westerns.
Serie
Opere di Forrest Carter
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Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 133 - Ein Schrei in der Nacht. Der Stern der Cherokee. Blindlings. Ich nannte ihn Yukon. (1984) 5 copie
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Sunflower • The Passing Bells • The Education of Little Tree • The Mountain Farm (1979) 4 copie
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Devil's Alternative • The Education of Little Tree • The Tightrope Walker •… — Autore — 2 copie
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Asa Earl Carter
- Altri nomi
- Carter, Forrest
- Data di nascita
- 1925-09-04
- Data di morte
- 1979-06-07
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Anniston, Alabama, USA
DeArmanville Methodist Church, east of Oxford, Alabama, USA - Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Anniston, Alabama, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Abilene, Texas, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Anniston, Alabama, USA
Sweetwater,Texas, USA
Abilene, Texas, USA - Istruzione
- University of Colorado
- Attività lavorative
- Author, Broadcasting, Politics, Speechwriter
- Relazioni
- Wallace, George C.
- Organizzazioni
- Ku Klux Klan
Northern Alabama Citizen's Council
American State's Rights Association - Premi e riconoscimenti
- The American Booksellers Book of the Year (ABBY) award (for "The Education of Little Tree")
- Breve biografia
- Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama politician George Wallace in the 1960s, but gained more fame in the '70s and '80s as novelist Forrest Carter, whose book "The Education of Little Tree" was a bestseller. The book purported to be an autobiographical account of growing up in Tennessee with Cherokee grandparents. First published in 1976 (and re-issued in 1986), it was considered by many to be an instant classic of Native American literature. After Carter died (from injuries he got in a 1979 fistfight), it was revealed that he was, in fact, Asa Earl Carter, a former radio announcer and Ku Klux Klan member, and that his "autobiography" was a work of fiction.
Carter also wrote Gone To Texas (1973), which became the Clint Eastwood movie The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976).
http://www.answers.com/topic/asa-earl...See Carter's biography in the online Encyclopedia of Alabama.
Utenti
Discussioni
Who wrote "The Education of Little Tree"? in Indigenous Peoples (Luglio 2014)
Recensioni
Josey Wales: Two Westerns : Gone to Texas/The… di Forrest Carter
The books are excellent. The author as a person? Not so much.
Swell. Would make a great movie with Clint Eastwood - oh, wait! AND - supports the old truism, don't cast your girlfriend in your movies (Sondra Locke). FURTHERMORE - Chief Dan George was entertaining in the film, but he is also miscast after reading the book. I assume there is a shortage of good Native American actors. Apparently, Clint Eastwood also holds the rights to make a movie of the second novel in this collection, but hasn't. I enjoyed the second novel even more, because I didn't know the story - certainly, though, I've seen several westerns that are essentially this story.… (altro)
Story of a young boy who is left orphaned and raised by his grandparents in Appalachia. His grandmother is Cherokee and his grandfather half Cherokee. They live in a small house up on a mountainside, with a bunch of hound dogs that protect their corn patch and trail foxes (for amusement). They mostly live off the land, gathering herbs, acorns and wild greens, hunting deer, catching fish etc. But the grandfather also makes whiskey in an attempt to earn some cash, and young Little Tree is learning this skill. Something I never thought I’d read the details of, making moonshine! Most of the story takes place while Little Tree is six years old (he seems older than that though), and there’s other stories told by visitors and friends, or shared family history. The kid does his best to learn what his grandparents teach him- not only to live off what the land gives them, but also to read (his grandmother reads Shakespeare from the library, and has him studying the dictionary) and do simple math. He’s pretty well taught for a kid who’s never gone to school, but when out in public with his grandfather- at the store, on the bus, or sitting in church- it’s apparent that the white folks around them look down on his family for being poor in material goods, for going barefoot or wearing deerskin clothing. Although the kid himself never really catches on that he’s being mocked. Different kinds of people come to their little house- those representing authorities that have good interests at heart, are given the runaround (in some very hilarious scenes). Relatives, friends, and one Jewish peddler however, are welcomed into their home, and Little Tree learns compassion, patience, and other bits of wisdom from them.
Things happen, up and down the mountainside, and I was settling into the rhythm of their days, the picture of life in the backwoods this gave me, when suddenly authorities find out this kid is living with his grandparents and not in school. They pull him out of his home and send him to a religious boarding school. Where things are very unpleasant and oppressive, to say the least. I’m glad the kid made it out of there, but the ending had me feeling really sad.
This book brought two others to mind while I was reading it: Where the Red Fern Grows (because of the hound dogs) and Where the Lilies Bloom (the setting and overall style). But once again, it also makes me grit my teeth when I look about online after and learn some facts. When this book was first published the author said it was autobiographical. Nope. He’s not even Native American. Before I was aware, I was enjoying the read and thought it a good story, but now I cringe at the things I didn’t question in the narrative, that are so blatantly wrong or stereotypical. Have to read with doubt in mind now: American Indians in Children’s Literature made me aware of some issues with this one. I feel like I should remove it from my personal collection.
from the Dogear Diary… (altro)
Things happen, up and down the mountainside, and I was settling into the rhythm of their days, the picture of life in the backwoods this gave me, when suddenly authorities find out this kid is living with his grandparents and not in school. They pull him out of his home and send him to a religious boarding school. Where things are very unpleasant and oppressive, to say the least. I’m glad the kid made it out of there, but the ending had me feeling really sad.
This book brought two others to mind while I was reading it: Where the Red Fern Grows (because of the hound dogs) and Where the Lilies Bloom (the setting and overall style). But once again, it also makes me grit my teeth when I look about online after and learn some facts. When this book was first published the author said it was autobiographical. Nope. He’s not even Native American. Before I was aware, I was enjoying the read and thought it a good story, but now I cringe at the things I didn’t question in the narrative, that are so blatantly wrong or stereotypical. Have to read with doubt in mind now: American Indians in Children’s Literature made me aware of some issues with this one. I feel like I should remove it from my personal collection.
from the Dogear Diary… (altro)
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