Broken

Paperback

Jones, Lisa 저자(글)

Scribner Book Company · 2010년 05월 18일

책 소개

A powerful memoir about healing and the friendship between a restless journalist and an Araphao medicine man and horse trainer.
Writer Lisa Jones went to Wyoming for a four-day magazine assignment. She was committed to a long-term relationship, building a career, and searching for something she could not name. At a dusty corral on the Wind River Indian Reservation, she met Stanford Addison, a Northern Arapaho who seemed to transform everything around him. He gentled horses rather than breaking them. It was said he could heal people of everything from cancer to bipolar disorder. He did all this from a wheelchair; he had been a quadriplegic for more than twenty years. Intrigued, Lisa sat at Stanford's kitchen table and watched. And she listened to his story. Stanford spent his teenage years busting broncos, seducing girls, and dealing drugs. At twenty, he left the house for another night of partying. By morning, a violent accident had robbed him of his physical prowess and left in its place unwelcome spiritual powersan exchange so shocking that Stanford spent several years trying to kill himself. Eventually he surrendered to his new life and mysterious gifts. Over the years Lisa was a frequent visitor to Stanford's place, the reservation and its people worked on her, exposing and healing the places where she, too, was broken. This is her story, intertwined with Stanford's, and it explores powerful spirits, material poverty, spiritual wealth, friendship, violence, confusion, death, and above all else, love.
"A beautifully written, heart wrenching journey into the depths of the soul.' A tale of mystery, courage, and love between men, women and horses."?-- Jim Fergus, author ofOne Thousand White WomenandThe Wild Girl
"A beautifully written, heart wrenching journey into the depths of the soul.?A tale of mystery, courage, and love between men, women and horses."?- Jim Fergus, author ofOne Thousand White WomenandThe Wild Girl
?쏛 beautifully written, heart wrenching journey into the depths of the soul. A tale of mystery, courage, and love between men, women and horses.??-- Jim Fergus, author of One Thousand White Women and The Wild Girl
?쏛 great endeav??a beautiful and powerful tale. I would treat myself to BROKEN, relishing the language, and like a woman with the best dark chocolate red chile fudge, I would savor its pages.??-- Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe activist and author of All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life and Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming
"A great endeavor; a beautiful and powerful tale. I would treat myself toBROKEN, relishing the language, and like a woman with the best dark chocolate red chile fudge, I would savor its pages."-- Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe activist and author ofAll our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and LifeandRecovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming
"Arapaho elder Stanford Addison'is the most'wonderful of heroes - and Jones is exactly the guide to bring him to us."?--Alexandra Fuller, author ofThe Legend of Colton H. BryantandDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight?
"Arapaho elder Stanford Addison쟧s the most쟷onderful of heroes - and Jones is exactly the guide to bring him to us."젨--Alexandra Fuller, author ofThe Legend of Colton H. BryantandDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight?9781416579076
?쏛rapaho elder Stanford Addison is the most wonderful of heroes - and Jones is exactly the guide to bring him to us." --Alexandra Fuller, author of The Legend of Colton H. Bryant and Don?셳 Let?셲 Go to the Dogs Tonight
"A stunning accomplishment! Lisa Jones captures the wild beauty of the Wind River Reservation, the pathos and joy of the Arapahos who live there, and the remarkable life of a modern-day medicine man.' All of this while on a healing journey into the broken places of her own heart."? Margaret Coel, author ofBlood Memory
"A stunning accomplishment! Lisa Jones captures the wild beauty of the Wind River Reservation, the pathos and joy of the Arapahos who live there, and the remarkable life of a modern-day medicine man.?All of this while on a healing journey into the broken places of her own heart."? Margaret Coel, author ofBlood Memory
?쏛 stunning accomplishment! Lisa Jones captures the wild beauty of the Wind River Reservation, the pathos and joy of the Arapahos who live there, and the remarkable life of a modern-day medicine man. All of this while on a healing journey into the broken places of her own heart.????Margaret Coel, author of Blood Memory
"BROKEN is about life loving us all equally and connecting us to spiritual responsibility. If you don't read BROKEN, you are missing out!"Tiokasin Ghosthorse ? Host of First Voices Indigenous Radio, WBAI NY.
"BROKEN is about life loving us all equally and connecting us to spiritual responsibility. If you don?셳 read BROKEN, you are missing out!" Tiokasin Ghosthorse ??Host of First Voices Indigenous Radio, WBAI NY.
"I love this book... a harrowing and ecstatic journey of mind, body and soul--so beautifully told that the reader is not just transfixed but transformed."--Abigail Thomas, author ofA Three Dog Life
?쏧 love this book... a harrowing and ecstatic journey of mind, body and soul-so beautifully told that the reader is not just transfixed but transformed.??--Abigail Thomas, author of A Three Dog Life
"Intrepid only begins to describe Lisa Jones, who goes to admirable and adventuresome lengths to take the measure of a singular American spirit."?--Ted Conover, author ofThe Routes of ManandNewjack
"Intrepid only begins to describe Lisa Jones, who goes to admirable and adventuresome lengths to take the measure of a singular American spirit."?-Ted Conover, author ofThe Routes of ManandNewjack
"Intrepid only begins to describe Lisa Jones, who goes to admirable and adventuresome lengths to take the measure of a singular American spirit.??-Ted Conover, author of The Routes of Man and Newjack
"It is the rare non-Native writer who can gain access to the hearts of Native people to share their stories; rarer still is the non-Native writer who tells those stories with both a clear eye and a compassionate heart. Lisa Jones has not only succeeded on both counts, she has offered us a story of a man, a people, and the bond between human and animal that will touch the heart of any reader...What a fine book."?--Kent Nerburn, author ofNeither Wolf nor DogandThe Wolf at Twilight
"It is the rare non-Native writer who can gain access to the hearts of Native people to share their stories; rarer still is the non-Native writer who tells those stories with both a clear eye and a compassionate heart. Lisa Jones has not only succeeded on both counts, she has offered us a story of a man, a people, and the bond between human and animal that will touch the heart of any reader...What a fine book."?-Kent Nerburn, author ofNeither Wolf nor DogandThe Wolf at Twilight
?쏧t is the rare non-Native writer who can gain access to the hearts of Native people to share their stories; rarer still is the non-Native writer who tells those stories with both a clear eye and a compassionate heart. Lisa Jones has not only succeeded on both counts, she has offered us a story of a man, a people, and the bond between human and animal that will touch the heart of any reader...What a fine book.??--Kent Nerburn, author of Neither Wolf nor Dog and The Wolf at Twilight
"Jones locates herself beautifully in a story that is hers and not hers. This is her first book. We look forward to the next." ?Los Angeles Times
?쏪ones locates herself beautifully in a story that is hers and not hers. This is her first book. We look forward to the next.????Los Angeles Times
"[Lisa Jones] has a knack for describing events, people, and scenery so well that the reader can almost taste the weak, sugary coffee and feel the oppressive heat of the ceremonial sweat lodge."?--Library Journal(starred review).
"[Lisa Jones] has a knack for describing events, people, and scenery so well that the reader can almost taste the weak, sugary coffee and feel the oppressive heat of the ceremonial sweat lodge."?-Library Journal(starred review).
??Lisa Jones] has a knack for describing events, people, and scenery so well that the reader can almost taste the weak, sugary coffee and feel the oppressive heat of the ceremonial sweat lodge.??-- Library Journal (starred review).

작가정보

저자(글) Jones, Lisa

Lisa Jones has written for The New York Times Magazine, High Country News, and National Public Radio. She is the author of Broken: A Love Story. She lives in Colorado with her husband and two cats.

기본정보

ISBN	9781416579076 ( 1416579079 )
발행(출시)일자	2010년 05월 18일
쪽수	288쪽
크기	140 * 216 * 20 mm / 249 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어