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Tony Hillerman - A Critical Companion (Hardcover, New)
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Tony Hillerman - A Critical Companion (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers
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Edgar Award-winning writer Tony Hillerman has earned a reputation
as a Grand Master of the popular mystery. This is the first
full-length examination of his work. One of the most successful
contemporary American writers, Hillerman has made his stories of
Native American detectives instrumental in understanding modern
American life. Through the creation of his Navajo detective
characters, Hillerman has given new vigor to the popular genre of
mystery fiction with his treatment of the problems of order and
identity in modern society. This study examines each of his 13
novels in turn and includes a biographical chapter and a chapter on
his innovations in the genre of detective fiction. This careful
study of the narrative techniques and thematic investigations of
Hillerman's detective fiction illuminates the way he has crafted a
new and profound method for understanding the conditions of modern
life. A biographical chapter traces the influence of his life on
his writing. Individual chapters on his novels are divided into
sections on setting, plot, generic conventions, character
development, and themes. In addition, Reilly offers alternate
approaches-such as feminist criticism or post-colonialism-from
which to read the novel, which gives the reader another perspective
on the fiction. This study discusses all of Hillerman's novels: The
Blessing Way, The Fly on The Wall, Dance Hall of the Dead, People
of Darkness, The Dark Wind, Listening Woman, The Ghostway,
Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, Talking God, Coyote Waits, Sacred
Clowns, and Finding Moon. A complete bibliography of Hillerman's
work, critical and biographical sources, and a list of reviews of
each of his novels completes the work. Because Hillerman is
considered a serious writer of popular detective fiction and has a
wide following of adult and young readers, this work is an
essential purchase by public and secondary school libraries, as
well as college and university libraries.
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