Ice-Shirt

<b>A majestic fictional evocation of the Norse arrival in the New World from the National Book Award-winning author of <i>Europe Central</i></b> <p/>The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call Vinland the Good. The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.<p>As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples--and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise--he creates a tour-de-force of speculative history a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga Inuit creation myth and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.</p>