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Original Title:	The Lesser Blessed: A Novel
ISBN:	1550545256 (ISBN13: 9781550545258)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Jugendbuch (2001)

The Lesser Blessed

Richard Van Camp

Paperback | Pages: 128 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 1149 Users | 138 Reviews

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Title	:	The Lesser Blessed
Author	:	Richard Van Camp
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 128 pages
Published	:	April 6th 2004 by Douglas & McIntyre (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Young Adult. Contemporary

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A fresh, funny look at growing up Native in the North, by award-winning author Richard Van Camp.

Larry is a Dogrib Indian growing up in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. His tongue, his hallucinations and his fantasies are hotter than the sun. At sixteen, he loves Iron Maiden, the North and Juliet Hope, the high school "tramp." When Johnny Beck, a Metis from Hay River, moves to town, Larry is ready for almost anything.

In this powerful and often very funny first novel, Richard Van Camp gives us one of the most original teenage characters in fiction. Skinny as spaghetti, nervy and self-deprecating, Larry is an appealing mixture of bravado and vulnerability. His past holds many terrors: an abusive father, blackouts from sniffing gasoline, an accident that killed several of his cousins. But through his friendship with Johnny, he’s ready now to face his memories—and his future.

Marking the debut of an exciting new writer, The Lesser Blessed is an eye-opening depiction of what it is to be a young Native man in the age of AIDS, disillusionment with Catholicism and a growing world consciousness.
A coming-of-age story that any fan of The Catcher in the Rye will enjoy.

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"After a while, I settled down and whispered, "I am my father's scream." (p. 38)The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp was a novel that I was very reluctant to finish. The writing style was unlike any other style I had ever seen before, some parts of it didn't make much sense, but they weren't supposed to- this was directly in the mind of the teenage protagonist, Larry Sole. The scattered thoughts that connected Larry to his past made the reading experience that much more intriguing, in the end,

I dont have words for this. I gulped it down like a starving animal. Richness and beauty and horror and joy, steady and unlikely and unwieldy.

The Lesser Blessed is set in the fictional town of Fort Simmer - based on Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories, a very harsh, bleak part of Canada. Seventeen-year-old Larry is a Dogrib (Tlicho) Indian (as is the author), living with his mother who's studying part-time to be a teacher. Tall and skinny and covered in burn scars under his clothes, he has a wildly active mind and a poet's tongue. When he becomes friends with Johnny Beck, a Métis boy recently arrived in town who already has a

This book is now 20 years old but still a relevant book and in my opinion, a high school must read. I really connected with Larry, who haunted by the past choices, dreams about about a classmates and eventually becomes with with the class rebel.Scarred mentally and physically Larry must navigate through life pining for a girl, wishing his mom would make a commitment to her boyfriend and understanding his friend.I really loved this book but my wish was that it had been longer as I wanted to know

Not that it was awful it's just not my style. But this story should be told, I just think it could have been told better. I would only recommend this story for someone that wants to read a messed up jumbled story. Spoilers!!!!!So what I think happened is that the main character (who I believe is native American) had a father that raped his aunt, who was being abused at her own home already. And I think the father was abusing his wife also. Then the main character killed his father because no one

I met Richard Van Camp recently at an early childhood education conference and decided I had to read his book. It is hard to believe that such a nice, funny man, and writer of beautiful children's books, could write such a raw, dark, disturbing novel. This coming of age story about a native teen growing up in the fictional town of Fort Simmer, NWT (based on Van Camp's home town of Fort Smith), deals with drugs, alcoholism, abuse, promiscuity and tragedy. It is not for the faint of heart, and

One of the best Canadian storytellers, and children book author. His novel is nothing but brilliant and tells the story that few of us are ever exposed to of a Dogrib teen growing up in a Northern town.