Research Catalog
Scavenger
- Title
- Scavenger / a novel by Dennison Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Dennison.
- Publication
- Toronto : Insomniac Press, [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR9199.3.S5515 S33 1997g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 200 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Scavenger is a first novel by Dennison Smith about cravings and the desire to fly. The narrator is a young girl of Irish descent growing up in the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, in the late 1970s with a swimming pool, a drunken mother, and a father who stands absently in every door frame, and speaks only through his music. At 13 she runs away from home and eventually comes to live with a Navajo woman on a reservation, where she is submerged in the stories, culture and spiritualism of Native America.
- It is a beautiful and often harsh story, which also contrasts the absurdities and disparities of the materially affluent lifestyle of suburban America with the third-world conditions on the - spiritually rich - Indian reservation.
- ISBN
- 1895837154
- LCCN
- cn 97931372
- OCLC
- 38732521
- ocm38732521
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries