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Author:

Silko, Leslie, 1948-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xxiii, 243 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Fiction.
Laguna Indians--Fiction.
Western stories.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : The Viking Press, 1977. With new preface by author.

Summary:

"This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Navaho young man. 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 ceremny that defeats the most virulent of afflictions-despair. "Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Drawn to his Indian past and its traditions, his search for comfort and resolution becomes a ritual--a curative ceremony that defeats his despair."--From source other than the Library of Congress

Series:

Penguin classics deluxe edition

ISBN:

9780143104919
0143104918

LCCN:

2006050705

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

KXPA353 -- Coulter Public Library (Coulter)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

RSSX851 -- Roland-Story High School Media Center (Story City)

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)