Review
From the book jacket:
A stirring and vivid novel about a white boy
raised among natives on the harsh Alaskan
tundra,
Ordinary Wolves depicts a life
different from what most people have ever
known.....Dispelling all mythical visions of
Alaska, this evocative novel leads readers down
its true trails, to feel the icy pinch of cold,
to hunker as blizzards moan overhead. And in the
twilit spaces from which animals appear are the
wolves - and Cutuk's father - living their lives
out on the tundra, unobtrusive,...
Beyond the Book
In the interview that you can read at
BookBrowse, Seth Kantner says that
Jack London's writing did influence
him to become a writer; however he
goes on to say that
'London said
when you spat or pissed it crackled
and froze before it hit the ground. It
never did that when I was a
kid––it got to 78 below one time
and it never did that!'
