PAINT YOUR FACE ON A DROWNING IN THE RIVER.
Edition: First Edition
New York: Greenwillow Books / William Morrow, 1978. In the sturdier publisher's "library binding" of beige cloth lettered in brown, and "Greenwillow Library Edition" on rear cover. Fine copy. Brown price-clipped jacket is sunned to spine, light rubbing to rear panel (noticable only at the right angle of light), else fine. A novel for young people about Native Americans on a reservation, one of whom is drafted for Vietnam. His 2nd book in the US, 3rd book overall, after a collection of science fiction stories. His first book was published in the Netherlands in 1976. Strete is himself an American Indian (born Ft. Wayne, Indiana), and the book's title was taken from an Ojibway saying, and it means "You are killing me."