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Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko ; introduction by Larry McMurtry ; with a new preface by the author.

Title

Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko ; introduction by Larry McMurtry ; with a new preface by the author.

Author

Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-

Publication

New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
©1977

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Additional Authors

McMurtry, Larry

Description

xxiii, 243 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Penguin classics deluxe edition

Uniform Title

Penguin classics deluxe edition

Subject

Genre/Form

Western stories.
Fiction
Historical fiction
Western fiction

Note

Originally published: New York : The Viking Press, 1977.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

ISBN

9780143104919
0143104918

LCCN

2006050705

OCLC

71189925
SCSB-11386362

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library