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The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman | |
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About 101 pages (30,207 words) in 6 products |
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| 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... summary from source:
 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... summary from source:
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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 The Dark Wind Information
88 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Dark Wind is the second Tony Hillerman novel to feature Officer Jim Chee. The plot involves the (real life) land dispute between the Navajo and the Hopi, a plane crash, stolen cocaine, and windmill vandalism. It was adapted into a feature film in...
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 The Boston Herald Powerful winds leave 4,000-plus in the dark.
11/28/1997: 426 words, approx. 1 pages Wind gusts up to 46 mph ripped through Greater Boston yesterday and Wednesday night, knocking down tree limbs and wires and causing power outages for more than 4,000 electric customers across the Bay State. "I was cooking the Thanksgiving turkey when the... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Compelling `Dark Wind': a tale of paradise lost
06/04/1999: 838 words, approx. 3 pages DARK WIND A Survivor's Tale of Love and Loss By Gordon Chaplin Atlantic Monthly Press, 225 pp., $23 Just before sunset on Nov. 9, 1992, the Lord Jim dropped anchor at Wotho atoll in the Marshall Islands, a cluster of dots in the...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by Ralph B. Sipper
520 words, approx. 2 pages
In the following review, Sipper lauds Hillerman's prose in The Dark Wind, calling the novel “a compact story that engages.”
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