Waters, Frank - Bob Gish (review date 20 December 1987)
Bob Gish (review date 20 December 1987)
SOURCE: "After 20 Years, a New Frank Waters Novel," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 20, 1987, p. 11.
[Gish is an American educator and nonfiction writer of Choctaw and Cherokee descent. In the review of Flight from Fiesta below, he praises Waters's descriptions of the Southwestern landscape and fresh treatment of American archetypes and taboos.]
Frank Waters is perhaps best known for his books on Hopi and Navajo ceremonialism, The Woman at Otowi Crossing (the best novel yet written on the science and mysticism surrounding the making of the atomic bomb), and The Man Who Killed the Deer, a classic account of Indian maturation set against the pueblo tribalism and town politics of Taos.
Over a long and illustrious writing career, Waters has established himself as one of the premier Southwestern writers—squabbles about geographical and aesthetic boundaries of...
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