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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. An interesting, surreal, image-driven text that breaks down boundaries of "traditional" narrative. ( ) I loved N. Scott Momaday's HOUSE MADE OF DAWN, and so I was pleased to find THE ANCIENT CHILD in a used book store.Combing myth and fiction, Momaday tells a magic tale of a man's search for his identity. Locke Setman( Set), a Kiowa Native American, was raised by his adoptive father far from his tribal home. When his grandmother dies, Set returns to the reservation for the funeral..... no reviews | add a review
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Returning to the land of his ancestors for his grandmother's funeral, Set is drawn to the fabled bear-boy whose story absorbs him. Then he meets a young medicine woman, and his world is turned upside down. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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