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Almanac of the Dead : A Novel
by Silko, Leslie Marmon
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0671666088
- ISBN 13
- 9780671666088
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1991. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0671666088. 1st printing. An ambitious attempt to retell 500 years of history from a Native American perspective, by viewing the damaged lives of a group of contemporary Indian drug dealers and misfits, and the anger and fervor of a group of Mexican and Central American Indian revolutionaries. The central image of an "almanac of the dead" -- a pre-Columbian book of divination -- provides the historical link that unites her contemporary characters with their more glorious forebears. Dust jacket has 1/2" long by 1/4" wide mi ssing paper on top outside corner, on outside & inside of the corner. In Brodart cover..
Synopsis
Almanac of the Dead is a novel by Leslie Marmon Silko, first published in 1991.
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- Title
- Almanac of the Dead : A Novel
- Author
- Silko, Leslie Marmon
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671666088
- ISBN 13
- 9780671666088
- Publisher
- New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1991
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1991
- Keywords
- INDIANS NORTH AMERICA FICTION WEST US HISTORICAL MEXICO 0671666088 NOVEL:
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