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Almanac of the Dead

by Leslie Marmon Silko

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ISBN13: 9780140173192
ISBN10: 0140173196
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In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors.

Review:

"This wild, jarring, graphic, mordant, prodigious book embodies the bold wish to encompass in a novel the cruelty of contemporary America, a nation founded on the murder and deracination of the continent's native peoples....Appearing on the eve of the quincentennial of Columbus's arrival in the Americas, [this book] burns at an apocalyptic pitch ? passionate indictment, defiant augury, bravura storytelling." The New York Times Book Review

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"The tragedy and the rage at tragedy that underwrite Almanac of the Dead are very real. They have spawned in Silko's mind an epic of collapse and retribution ? and implied regeneration....The reader grips the edges of the book as though they were the steering wheel of a vehicle careening out of control." The New Republic

Review:

"The author's sentences have a drive and a sting to them. But the receptacle of her crowded, raging, enormously long book swirls with half-digested revulsion, half-explained characters and, a white elitist must add, more than a little self-righteousness." Time

Review:

"When I was a girl, writers ? mainly Norman Mailer ? used to talk about 'the Great American Novel,' and wonder which of them would master her....What a joke on all those big-mouthed New York guys: This one was written by a woman, and a Native American at that." Voice Literary Supplement

Review:

"...one of the most ambitious novels of the past two decades...Silko deserves every one of the major awards ? and they are numerous ? that she has received." Barry Milligan, Hungry Mind Review

Product Details

ISBN:
9780140173192
Author:
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Location:
New York, N.Y. :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Indians of north america
Subject:
West (u.s.)
Subject:
Indians of mexico
Subject:
Southwest, New Fiction.
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Historical fiction
Publication Date:
November 1992
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
768
Dimensions:
8.46x5.56x1.39 in. 1.34 lbs.

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