Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1992-11-01
ISBN-13:9780140173192ISBN:0140173196
Description: Good. Pages are clean and unmarked, though tanned. Covers show some edge wear and creasing.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
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Description: Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780671666088ISBN:0671666088
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. Back of dust jacket has a small tear that has been taped. read more
Edition: 2nd
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Many
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780671666088ISBN:0671666088
Description: Cover Art. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with normal flaws....The hard cover and the jacket has very light shelf wear....Heavy book.........We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780671666088ISBN:0671666088
Description: Very good+/Very Good+ 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 0671666088 Collectible 8vo DJ 763pp A novel of the Southwest by one of the finest Native American writers. read more
"I was determined to finish this and I did. I was so hungry for the narrative: drug dealing and real estate development in Tucson, an army of the homeless, military fortifications on the border, a tv psychic, persistent rumors of an indigenous uprising coming from the south. Some of these themes overlap with 2666, and it's also similar to 2666 for being a Big Book. But I just couldn't get past the writing. First of all, most of the book is written in the past perfect, for no grammatical reason I could tell. It's really weird and it creates a distancing effect where you're waiting to catch up to the "present" past tense of the book. And the characters are all underdrawn, crass, selfish, unsympathetic. And then there's the weird homophobia - I don't even know whether to call it that, but a near majority of the main characters are gay men, and they are sadists, misogynists, baby-killers, etc. Is this some kind of statement on queerness as a civilized disease? I don't know. The story of Leche's translation Yoeme's almanac is truly good and some of the best writing somes in the excerpts from the book that Silko creates. But on the whole I was really disappointed."
"I read Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead for my "Big Books" class, and quickly realized that Silko's work definitely fit the description of a big book: it's a sprawling, expansive epic that spans various continents and chronologies. Beyond big, however, any label you try to apply becomes problematic: it is an epic with no hero, a soap opera with deadly consequences, an exhaustive study too broad to truly be exhausted. Although the tribes that populate these pages "acknowledge no borders," Silko is interested in all the boundaries--both real and imagined--that surround the human experience.
These are dark, twisted characters that "demand nothing less than the return of all tribal lands," and over the course of 763 pages, you learn that they will use any means necessary to get what they want. As readers, we're just along for the ride, and although it is a trip that might leave us shaken, it will definitely take us places that we've never been before."
"I suspect many people shy away from this novel because of its length. In any case, it hasn't achieved the canonical status of Ceremony, but Almanac of the Dead is Silko's best novel. It is epic in scope and delivered in poetic but unsparing language."
"Someone said a good book tells about a good character, and a bad book tells more about the character of its author. I believe this book is the latter, and I don't believe I would care to cross paths with Leslie Marmon Silko. Among the many fold things I disliked about this book (homophobia, long academic pretension, shock tactics, faux-spiritualism, and completely soulless characters), I found the anger in it to be the most disturbing. It was anger DISGUISED as prophesy and renewal, but in the end it was only about destruction and reveling in the apocalypse. I kept slogging through hoping for some sort of twist at the end that would give real understanding or development to the characters or some plot, but was disappointed. I will not recommend this book to anyone or keep it on my bookshelf. In fact, I need to read something much better to cleanse my palate after this book. Yuck."
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