The Man Who Killed The Deer: A Novel of Pueblo Indian Life
Frank Waters
(Author)
Description
The story of Martiniano, The Man Who Killed the Deer, is a timeless story of Pueblo Indian sin and redemption, and of the conflict between Indian and white laws; written with a poetically charged beauty of style, a purity of conception, and a thorough understanding of Native American values.
Product Details
Price
$17.95
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Publish Date
January 01, 1949
Pages
266
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.4 X 0.7 inches | 0.75 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780804001946
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About the Author
Frank Waters (1902-1995), one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest, wrote twenty-eight works of fiction and nonfiction.
Reviews
"[Waters's] long and wide experience... has given him an insight to the ways of the Indian, perhaps not exceeded by any other novelist."--Los Angeles Times
"A rich fusion of myth and reality, both a detailed rendering of Pueblo Indian rituals, ceremonies and beliefs and an account of the Indians' political struggle to get back their ancestral lands."--Westways
"By far the finest novel of American Indian life I have ever read."--Saturday Review of Literature
"It will live as one of the important pieces of literature on the American Indian."--San Francisco Chronicle
"A rich fusion of myth and reality, both a detailed rendering of Pueblo Indian rituals, ceremonies and beliefs and an account of the Indians' political struggle to get back their ancestral lands."--Westways
"By far the finest novel of American Indian life I have ever read."--Saturday Review of Literature
"It will live as one of the important pieces of literature on the American Indian."--San Francisco Chronicle
