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House Made of Dawn
House Made of Dawn
Author: N. Scott Momaday
"House Made of Dawn" is about the struggle of a man who cannot understand or be understood, a man who is integrated with neither the traditions of his Indian heritage nor the ways of the white world. When Abel, a mixed-blood Indian who does not even know the tribe of his own father, returns to the Walatow Pueblo reservation after serving in Worl...  more »
ISBN: 109539
Pages: 212
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Publisher: Book of the Month Club
Book Type: Paperback
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Beautiful and vivid descriptions of two different worlds that the character inhabits. Lends to circular thought rather than linear.
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He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstacy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home from a foreign war, he was a man being torn apart, a man descending into hell...


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