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Genre/Form: | Fiction Historical fiction Western stories Western fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Silko, Leslie, 1948- Ceremony. New York : Penguin Books, ©2006 (OCoLC)658456055 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Leslie Marmon Silko; Larry McMurtry |
ISBN: | 9780143104919 0143104918 |
OCLC Number: | 71189925 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York : The Viking Press, 1977. |
Description: | xxiii, 243 pages ; 22 cm. |
Series Title: | Penguin classics deluxe edition. |
Responsibility: | Leslie Marmon Silko ; introduction by Larry McMurtry ; with a new preface by the author. |
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Abstract:
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremony that defeats the most virulent of afflictions -- despair.
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