WILD LIKE THE FOXES

by Anauta ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 5, 1956

Another story of eastern Arctic Eskimos by the author of Children of the Blizzard, this is a fictionalization of Anauta's mother's youth in Labrador. Alea, who lost her own mother when she was only ten, was raised by her father and brother, Abpea and Koopah, and learned to hunt and live like a man. She is happy with this until, at a trading post dance, she realizes she is too boyish. But an unlooked for opportunity to study in London, and the friendship of another Eskimo boy Yorgke, help her to make a new and satisfactory adjustment to life. Good on details of Eskimo life, this is nevertheless burdened with a trite emotionalism, much of which seems to have been laid on to impress American readers.

Pub Date: March 5, 1956

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: John Day

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1956

Categories: FICTION