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| Author | Michael Blake |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
Publication date | 1988 |
| Publication place | United States |
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| Pages | 304 |
Dances With Wolves is a 1988American Civil War novel byMichael Blake. Originally written as an unsoldspec script, it was converted into a novel at the behest ofKevin Costner;[1] it was adapted into afilm of the same name, directed by Costner, in 1990.[2]
Set during theCivil War, the protagonist, U.S. Army Lieutenant John Dunbar, is sent to establish an outpost in the unsettled West but finds himself stranded when his wagoner is killed. Isolated and increasingly haunted by his memories of war, Dunbar abandons his post and settles with a tribe ofComanche people he has befriended, soon taking the name "Dances With Wolves". The novel and the film later came under criticism for similarity toElliot Silverstein'sA Man Called Horse.[3]
On September 4, 2001, Michael Blake publishedThe Holy Road, a sequel toDances With Wolves; the story is set eleven years later, and deals with the increasing conflict between thePlains Indians and the white man, with tragic outcomes.[4][5]
Eleven years after winning an Academy Award for the film screenplay of his novelDances With Wolves, Blake offers this dramatic sequel to his tale of army Lt. John Dunbar and his life with the Comanche Indians on the Great Plains. It is now 1874, 11 years after Dunbar deserted from the army to live among the Comanche. He has married Stands With A Fist, the captive white woman raised by Indians, and they have three children. [...]
Eleven years have passed since Lieutenant John Dunbar became the Comanche warrior Dances With Wolves and married Stands With A Fist, a white-born woman raised as a Comanche from early childhood. [...]
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