Almanac of the Dead: A Novel (the uncorrected proof, Ivan Doig's copy)
Simon and Schuster, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. The uncommon uncorrected proof with "Property of Ivan Doig" written at top of the first page in his hand. Laid in also is a two-page promotional letter addressed to Doig from Michael Korda, editor and chief of Simon and Schuster. This is Silko's second novel, after her acclaimed debut Ceremony. Doig is best known for his classic first literary book, the memoir This House of Sky, a finalist for the National Book Award. Very good or better in bright yellow wraps with a hint of sunning and a gentle crease down the spine; rear upper corner slightly bumped or creased. Clean otherwise, pages tight and crisp. A nice association, as Doig and Silko simultaneously helped shape the identity of the American West and its literature. We also can't find another available example of this proof as of this writing. Item #2228
ISBN: 0671666088
More about the book:
"From critically acclaimed author Leslie Marmon Silko, an epic novel about people caught between two cultures and two times: the modern-day Southwest, and the places of the old ones, the native peoples of the Americas
"In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale, a brilliant, haunting, and tragic novel of ruin and resistance in the Americas. At the heart of this story is Seese, an enigmatic survivor of the fast-money, high-risk world of drug dealing—a world in which the needs of modern America exist in a dangerous balance with Native American traditions. Seese has been drawn back to the Southwest in search of her missing child. In Tuscon, she encounters Lecha, a well-known psychic who is hiding from the consequences of her celebrity. Lecha’s larger duty is to transcribe the ancient, painfully preserved notebooks that contain the history of her own people—a Native American Almanac of the Dead.
"Through the violent lives of Lecha’s extended familiy, a many-layered narrative unfolds to tell the magnificent, tragic, and unforgettable story of the struggle of native peoples in the Americas to keep, at all costs, the core of their culture: their way of seeing, their way of believing, their way of being."
“To read this book is to hear the voices of the ancestors and spirits telling us where we came from, who we are, and where we must go.” —Maxine Hong Kingston.
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