Lyric of the circle heart
Subtitle: the Bowman family trilogy
By: William Eastlake.
Contributors: Eastlake, William.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Normal, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
Subjects: Bowman family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction; Family -- New Mexico -- Fiction; Domestic fiction, American; Navajo Indians -- Fiction; Western stories
Description: These novels 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.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: 3 by Eastlake. 1970.
Table of contents: title: Go in beauty; title: The Bronc people; title: Portrait of an artist with twenty-six horses.