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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780140173192 ISBN: 0140173196 Label: Penguin Books Manufacturer: Penguin Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 768 Publication Date: November 01, 1992 Publisher: Penguin Books Studio: Penguin Books Sales Rank: 208160 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Author readings. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - READ THIS BOOK. You will not regret it.I just... I have no words. There are parts of this book that make me sick. Parts that make me weep. Parts that really piss me off. And yet, it leaves me hopeful. I adore this book. It's truly revolutionary, in my opinion. I question the classification as fiction, however. I mean, yes, there are parts that are very much fictional - specific characters, individual backstories and personalities and situation. But, as with I-novels (shishosetsu), while the details are fictional, the essence ... Read More Rating: - Formidable, Complex, Vast And CompellingThis is a novel that's formidable at first sight but well worth reading, or at the very least skimming... I stumbled upon this book after I was captivated by the cover as a fellow walked by holding it under his arm. I thought "Almanac of The Dead," that sounds like something I'd like to read... It was, just not the way I expected... With more than 50 characters and a wide array of events spanning hundreds of years and several continents, the plot of this novel is less linear ... Read More Rating: - The American UlyssesThis novel is one of the great novels of the 20th century--IMHO. It ranks with Joyce's "Ulysses" in dissecting a culture, this one of North America (sans Canada). There are lessons here, and the writing cuts to the bone. Not F. Scott Fitzgerald or Ernest Hemingway, to be sure. More like an extended take by Flannery O'Connor from a Native American perspective. To read (and re-read) "The Almanac of the Dead," "Under the Volcano," (Malcolm Lowry) "Wise Blood," (O'Connor) and "Moby ... Read More Rating: - Awesome, Gritty, Graphic, and BeautifulI love Leslie Marmon Silko's book. I was able to relate to the story and the plot is believable. Leslie is a very talented, and worthy writer. While the book was depressing at times, it was filled with truth, righteous indignation, and deep wisdom. It is time to take our lives back from those that destroy and plunder our Earth Mother, and seek nothing more then greed for comfort. I hope a revolution develops, like the one in Almanac of the Dead. It is time for Indigenous peoples to take back ... Read More Rating: - Stunning RevelationLeslie Marmon Silko has created an intensely profound window into the deep undercurrents of American civilization. Her complex characters and revealing looks into their lives opens a porthole into the human condition that is intersting and intense all at once. The reader becomes an intregal part of the lives of the characters that she has created. The shortcomings of the characters are buried beneath reality and Silko is able to make a connection that is intriguing. Aside from the all consuming length of ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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