num_pages: 518
description: These novels -- Go in Beauty (1956), The Bronc People (1958), Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-six Horses (1936) -- face head-on the reality of the American Indian, perhaps the last great taboo in American culture. After all of the flag-waving, the wars to protect the Land of the Free, and interventions around the world in the name of democracy, how do Americans admit, even today, that America was not discovered by Columbus and not courageously cultivated by white Anglo-Saxons? The land was invaded and a people destroyed, all in the name of religion, political freedom, and money. Against a background of New Mexico that transcends regional space, Eastlake explores race, greed, and tradition, evoking stereotypes for the sake of exploding them and laying bare an American reality that is a strange mix of pop culture, zany humor, biting satire, and a deep-seated respect for and love of the land.[Previously published as 3 by Eastlake (1970). Revised and retitled by the author in 1995.]
language: English
title: Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy
titlecomplete: Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy (American Literature)
genres: Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 34
series: Checkerboard Trilogy
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press