Angilirq, Paul Apak

ATANARJUAT the Fast Runner: The Fast Runner Inspired by a Traditional Inuit Legend of Igloolik

Toronto: Coach House Books, 2002. First Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. Item #1307005
ISBN: 9781552451137

1st printing of the 4to glossy pictorial wraps edition. 240pp. Illus. Text in Inuit & English. After introductory material, most of book is original screenplay. A powerful film, "the first film written, directed and acted by Inuit in the ancient oral language of Inuktitut, was an international sensation..." Screenplay is followed by a long section, "An Ethnographic Commentary - The Legend of Atanarjuat, Inuit and Shamanism," plus other material. Somewhat scarce. Fine.

Price: $53.02