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Talking God by Tony Hillerman

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Author Biography

Name: Tony Hillerman
Birth Date: May 27, 1925
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Novelist, Educator

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Biography of Tony Hillerman
6243 words, approx. 20.8 pages
“I tend to have two sorts of fans,” Tony Hillerman observed in a 1986 interview with Sue Bernell and Michaela Karni: “One kind are the mystery readers, who care more about plot. The other kind I call 'desert rats.'” Since then, howeve...
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Biography of Tony Hillerman
4416 words, approx. 14.7 pages
Tony Hillerman grew up during the Depression in the small, farming community of Sacred Heart, in Potawatomie, Oklahoma. His father's farm came without indoor plumbing, tractor, or electricity. The nearest library was thirty-five miles away and the once-a...
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Biography of Tony Hillerman
3214 words, approx. 10.7 pages
Tony Hillerman "created the American Indian policier," according to critic Herbert Mitgang in the New York Times. Hillerman also "breaks out of the detective genre," as Daniel K. Muhlestein noted in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. "He is a writer o...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Talking God Information
65 words, approx. 0 pages
Talking God is a novel by Tony Hillerman. A considerable portion of the book actually takes place in Washington, D.C. rather than in the American Southwest, where many of Tony Hillerman's books take place. The cover of at least some copies of the book...


News and Journals
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Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
Talking about God...
04/12/2003: 340 words, approx. 1 pages
Editor, New Era: There have been letters recently about our president interjecting references to his faith in God in his speeches. Anybody should be able to make mention of his beliefs any time he wants. It may enhance or diminish his stature --...
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National Catholic Reporter
After talking about God, learning to talk to God.(Spirituality)
12/17/2004: 1,283 words, approx. 4 pages
Near the end of his life and of his phenomenal inquiry into the nature of God and faith, Thomas Aquinas was transfixed by an ecstasy so forceful that he declared his life's work to be mere "straw." The 13th-century Dominican monk had written that...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Orlando A. Romero
695 words, approx. 2 pages
In the following review, Romero comments on the narrative plot and style of Talking God, noting that Hillerman is “one of America's best storytellers.”


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Talking God by Tony Hillerman

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