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Original Title:	Dalva
ISBN:	0671740679 (ISBN13: 9780671740672)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Dalva #1

Dalva (Dalva #1) Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

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From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way, she discovers a story that stretches from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam -- and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul.

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Title	:	Dalva (Dalva #1)
Author	:	Jim Harrison
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Contemporary Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1991 by Washington Square Press (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literary Fiction

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Ratings: 4.18 From 3102 Users | 272 Reviews

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I disliked the book for the same reason another reader-author loved it. I thought Jim Harrison did not craft a believable voice for Dalva. It struck me as too much bedded in how many men see women.

I wish I was this woman.

Maybe it just fits my mood, but I'll call Dalva one of the top 10 American novels ever written. Stark landscapes, warm people and cold selfish motivation. Most accurate depiction of the plains I've ever read.

Jim Harrison has joined the ranks of Wallace Stegner and Larry McMurtry as among my very favorite of the authors that write about the western US and it's history. It is another of those books that was such a profound experience reading, that I want to have time to just sit with it before I begin examining it and taking apart the three generational story it tells. There are a lot of layers packed in here. The one aspect I will comment on is the voice and character of Dalva. I always find it brave

The story was not captivating or interesting for me to finish this. I thought the first part was decent but the second part was too boring to continue reading. The writing style was not the greatest, characters were weak and the plot was just overlapping everything. Dalva was the only thing that was interesting about this book but her traits did not save the hype of this book. I seen many rave reviews from this book, I fail to see the hype and failed to see why I bothered to give this a moment

This book and The Road Home are my favorites. I became so invested in this story. I loved the way Harrison interwove a native family history with a white-western family and highlighted the complexities and challenges of it. His intimate knowledge with the Nebraska landscape was enchanting. I fell in love with this family and I wanted everything to work out for them.

Dalva is probably my favorite novel by the man who is most certainly my favorite living novelist, Jim Harrison. I've probably read it five times and just read it again because of a death in my family, and because Harrison in general always grounds me in life, and gives me a renewed appreciation for being alive.It's very hard to describe how he brings that about; I'm not sure I understand, something about the way he writes the sentences, the things he notices. I've read everything he's