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Bleed into Me.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Bleed into Me STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES. Univ. of Nebraska, $22 (112p) ISBN 0-8032-2605-5
Jones paints a bleak picture in this collection about Native American men struggling to break the circle of violence, alcoholism and broken families that circumscribes their lives. "Halloween," the opening short short, sets the tone: a brutal father initiates his six-, nine- and 12-year-old sons into manhood by teaching them to smoke cigarettes and drink beer on national holidays. "Bile" revisits an all-too-familiar Native American tragedy, as a young man and his family wait helplessly while his hospitalized father succumbs to the …
