by Forrest Carter · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780826308795
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«The Education of Little Tree» is the novel by Forrest Carter, published by University of New Mexico Press in paperback (216 pages, in English).
It recounts the childhood of an orphaned Cherokee boy who grows up with his grandparents in the Appalachian mountains during the Great Depression. Nicknamed Little Tree, he learns to hunt, read, and respect nature according to Cherokee wisdom, in contrast to the white world and its assimilation schools.
Originally published in 1976, this 1986 edition includes the foreword by Rennard Strickland. Winner of the American Booksellers Book of the Year Award (ABBY) in 1991.
Recommended for young adults and adults, as well as for book clubs and readers of historical fiction or classics on the Native American experience.
Asa Earl Carter was an American segregationist and Ku Klux Klan organizer who was prominent in the 1950s for his activism and later as a Western fiction novelist. He was particularly known for his work as a co-writer of George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." He ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama as a white supremacist. Later, under the pseudonym of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that was adapted into a 1976 film featuring Clint Eastwood that was added to the National Film Registry, and The Education of Little Tree (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book which was marketed as a memoir but which turned out to be fiction.
