Gardens in the Dunes (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Europe or Europeans, Native Americans or American Indians, Multiculturalism, Identity, Southwest
- Locales: Europe, New York, Southwest (U.S.)
Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes received more acclaim that the lengthy Almanac of the Dead, and a number of critics, as well as professors and students in higher education, compared the text favorably to her earlier book-length works Ceremony and Storyteller, in terms of both the beauty of the prose and the ultimate positive resolution of the circumstances of the text.
Adolescent Indigo is separated from her Sand Lizard people in the hidden gardens near the Arizona-California border. She spends most of the balance of the novel engaging in...
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Leslie Marmon Silko (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Leslie Marmon Silko (Long Fiction)Leslie Marmon Silko (Poetry)Leslie Marmon Silko (Short Fiction)Leslie Marmon Silko (American Indians)Leslie Marmon Silko (Identities and Issues)Leslie Marmon Silko (Sixties in America)
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