Cette saga épique retrace les vies entrelacées de plusieurs familles, tissant une tapisserie d'intrigues, de romance et de tragédie sur plusieurs décennies. Se déroulant sur des toiles de fond historiques tumultueuses, le récit explore comment les choix personnels croisent d'importants changements sociétaux. Les lecteurs seront captivés par des personnages complexes, des développements de intrigue passionnants et de profondes réflexions sur l'héritage et la connexion humaine. C'est une histoire sur la façon dont le passé façonne l'avenir et sur les schémas complexes qui définissent notre existence.
The narrative centers around a peculiar incident involving Rabbit Stockings, who urges others not to hold the white women accountable for the unusual event. This highlights themes of misunderstanding and the complexities of human interactions. The story promises to explore the dynamics of race and gender within a unique context, inviting readers to reflect on the nature of blame and societal perceptions.
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. Long before Cormac McCarthy and even long before Tom Robbins, William Eastlake invented an American Southwest whose comic and tragic dimensions, as well as its hard beauty, encapsulates American myths and nightmares in much the way that Faulkner did with his invented Yoknapatawpha County. 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.
