| Almanac of the Dead Contributor(s): Silko, Leslie Marmon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140173196 ISBN-13: 9780140173192 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $21.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1992 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Native American & Aboriginal - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (1.65 lbs) 768 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "To read this book is to hear the voices of the ancestors and spirits telling us where we came from, who we are, and where we must go." --Maxine Hong Kingston 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. |