While the man buys a hunting knife and an old Ford Falcon, the narrator sees Agnes and her brother Dougie in the street. He meets the Airplane Man again when he travels to Havre, Montana, where the man tries to convince the narrator to take him across the border to Calgary in an attempt to escape from the FBI. The narrator travels to Malta, Montana to track her down, where he meets a white nameless "Airplane Man" from New York heading out West. After getting into a bar fight with a white man, the narrator comes home drunk to discover that his girlfriend, Agnes, has disappeared with his electric razor and gun. The novel features a self-destructive narrator undergoing an identity crisis. Alexie later produced the film adaptation of the novel, which was released in 2012. Welch received praise from such luminaries as Pulitzer Prize-winning Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich, celebrated American novelist Reynolds Price, and Coeur d'Alene author Sherman Alexie. Set on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in north-central Montana during the late 1960s, Winter in the Blood follows a nameless Blackfeet and Gros Ventre (A'aninin) man's episodic journey to piece together his fragmented identity. It was published by Harper and Row's Native American Publishing Program in 1974. Winter in the Blood is the debut novel of James Welch.
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