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The sorrow of archaeology : a novel

Title
The sorrow of archaeology : a novel / Russell Martin.
Author
Martin, Russell.
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

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271 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"One hot Colorado afternoon, physician-turned-archaeologist Sarah MacLeish unearths the skeleton of an Ancestral Puebloan girl with a deformed leg. Her efforts to understand something of the long-ago life of that girl confront her with the flaws in her own body, and in her marriage. Sarah struggles with multiple sclerosis, and she is increasingly persuaded that her husband, archaeologist Harry MacLeish, is profoundly discontented in their childless marriage." "Sarah must contend too with the question of where she comes from, what she remains capable of accomplishing in her life, how she can live up to the values of her grandmother - whose long life is drawing to its inevitable close - and whether she has either the power or the will to shape the days that remain to her."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Multiple sclerosis > Patients > Fiction
  • Pueblo Indians > Antiquities > Fiction
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Fiction
  • Archaeologists' spouses > Fiction
  • Women physicians > Fiction
  • Archaeologists > Fiction
  • Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.) > Fiction
  • Colorado > Fiction
Genre/Form
Psychological fiction.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
0826337252 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2005014577
OCLC
  • ocm60492113
  • SCSB-5218306
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries