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Almanac of the dead : a novel / by Leslie Marmon Silko.

Summary:

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. --Publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0140173196 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780140173192 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0671666088 (cased)
  • ISBN: 9780671666088 (cased)
  • Physical Description: 763 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 1992, c1991.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1991.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part one. The United States of America. Tucson -- San Diego -- Southwest -- South -- The border -- The North -- West Tucson -- Indian country -- Part two. Reign of death-eye dog -- Reign of fire-eye macaw -- Part three. Africa. New Jersey -- Arizona -- El Paso -- Part four. The Americas. Mountains -- Rivers -- Part five. The fifth world. The foes -- The warriors -- The struggle -- Part six. One world, many tribes. Prophecy.
Subject:
Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Fiction.
Indians of Mexico > Fiction.
Southwest, New > Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 4 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library INDIAN # 443 275533 Fiction In process -
Lummi Library SILK 1991 265318 Fiction Available -
Lummi Library SILK 1991 269336 Fiction Reshelving -
Lummi Library SILK 1991 282093 Fiction Available -

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