The Death of Bernadette Lefthand - Softcover

Querry, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553375369 ISBN 13: 9780553375367

Verlag: Bantam Dell, 1995

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Book by Querry Ron

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An award-winning first novel by a Native American author focuses on the murder of a beautiful young Apache woman and offers a profound view of the complexity and bleakness of contemporary life on the reservation. Reprint.

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o regional book awards and overwhelming praise, this haunting first novel about the mysterious death of a young Indian dancer is a stunning portrayal of the spirit and struggles of the Southwest's native peoples.

Even today, amid the sere hills of Arizona and New Mexico, the Navajo believe witchcraft is at work. Some suspect it is the unseen force behind the brutal murder of Bernadette Lefthand, a young woman renowned on the Jicarilla Apache reservation for her beauty and graceful dancing. Others suspect Bernadette's hard-drinking husband, Anderson George, who has inexplicably disappeared. Gracie, Bernadette's teenage sister, tries to make sense of the vortex of doom in which the young couple seems to have been caught, while Bernadette's Anglo employer, Starr Stubbs, and an unnamed stranger reveal a tale of betrayal and tragedy.

In prose rich with the rhythms and colors of the desert highways, Ron Querry--a member of the Choctaw Nation--paints a vivid portrait of the lives o

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• Verlag: Bantam Dell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0553375369
• ISBN 13: 9780553375367
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228