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Book Reviews of House Made of Dawn

House Made of Dawn
Author: N. Scott Momaday
ISBN-13: 9785553682040
ISBN-10: 5553682045
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Publisher: Books on Tape
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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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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Beautiful and vivid descriptions of two different worlds that the character inhabits. Lends to circular thought rather than linear.