Ceremony

Table of Contents

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

Ceremony

Sunrise.

About the Author

LESLIE MARMON SILKO was born in Albuquerque in 1948 of mixed ancestry-Laguna Pueblo, Mexican, and white. She grew up in the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, where she lives with her husband and two children. She is the author of the novel Almanac of the Dead , and her stories have appeared in many magazines and collections (including Writers of the Purple Sage ). She is the recipient of a five-year MacArthur Foundation grant.

LARRY McMURTRY is the author of twenty-eight novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove . His other works include two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, including the coauthorship of Brokeback Mountain , for which he received an Academy Award. He lives in Archer City, Texas.

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First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1977
Published by New American Library 1978
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