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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Almanac of the Deadby Leslie Marmon Silko
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 Review:"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 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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