Almanac of the Dead (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Culture
- Locales: Mexico
One of two novels here is a sensational story of sex, drugs, and arms in the American Southwest; the other is a timeless story of spiritual strength for a sick world, to be found in American Indian life and myth. Part Native American history, part mythic prophecy, part contemporary cultural analysis, ALMANAC OF THE DEAD is more and less than all of these. Its focus is on the recent present, and on what has happened to people—white, Mexican, and Native American—who have been corrupted by the greed and violence of the contemporary world, but it hops back and forth between the...
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