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Books with author Ebbitt Culter

  • I Once Knew an Indian Woman

    Ebbitt Cutler

    eBook (Keir Cutler, Jan. 4, 2020)
    Selected as an "Outstanding Book of the Year" by the New York Time Book Review in 1973, "I Once Knew an Indian Woman" is a heartwarming childhood memoir. The story is set in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, between First and Second World Wars. The book received multiple rave reviews, and was also awarded first prize in the Canadian Centennial Literary Competition. This new edition for 2020 is edited by Ebbitt Cutler's son, Keir Cutler, who worked with his mother before her death in 2011 to develop an updated version. Keir also created a theatrical monologue from the book titled, "Magnificence" which won Best English Text when it debuted at the 2019 Montreal Fringe Festival. In 1973, the New York Times review of "I Once Knew an Indian Woman" stated, “Simplicity isn’t easy to find any more and neither is goodness. . . . Madame Dey is a marvellous figure. Her story is revealed gently, almost unobtrusively. . . . A story like this is almost impossible to tell without cuteness or sentimentality. Ebbitt Cutler has managed it.”
  • I Once Knew an Indian Woman

    Ebbitt Cutler

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 1, 1973)
    The author describes the greatness of an illiterate Iroquois Indian woman she came to know during summers at a small French-Canadian resort village in the Laurentians.
  • The Last Noble Savage: A Laurentian Idyll

    Ebbitt Cutler

    Hardcover (Tundra Books, March 15, 1967)
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  • I Once Knew an Indian Woman

    Ebbitt Cutler

    Paperback (Collections Canada, Jan. 22, 2020)
    New edition for 2020. Selected an "Outstanding Book of the Year" by the New York Time Book Review in 1973, "I Once Knew an Indian Woman" is a heartwarming childhood memoir set in Mont Tremblant, Quebec between First and Second World Wars. The book received multiple rave reviews, and was also awarded first prize in the 1967 Canadian Centennial Literary Competition. This new edition is edited by her son, Keir Cutler, who worked with his mother before her death in 2011 to develop an updated version and a theatrical monologue from the book titled, "Magnificence" which won "Best English Text" at the 2019 Montreal Fringe Festival. In 1973, the New York Times review of "I Once Knew an Indian Woman" stated, “Simplicity isn’t easy to find any more and neither is goodness. . . . Madame Dey is a marvellous figure. Her story is revealed gently, almost unobtrusively. . . . A story like this is almost impossible to tell without cuteness or sentimentality. [May] Ebbitt Cutler has managed it.”