<B>Two contemporary classics from a major writer of the Native American renaissance</B><BR><BR> During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, <I>Winter in the Blood</I>, is one of his most enduring works. The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his once proud heritage, and MontanaÂ's vast emptiness. <I>Winter in the Blood</I> is an evocative and unforgettable work of literature that will continue to move and inspire anyone who encounters it.