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House Made of Dawn
House Made of Dawn
Author: N. Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; but the other world - modern, industrial America - pulls at Abel, demanding...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780072434200
ISBN-10: 0072434201
Publication Date: 6/2000
Pages: 198
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Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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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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