Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy

Lyric of the Circle Heart brings together William Eastlake’s brilliant Bowman Family Trilogy, three novels that confront the myth and reality of the American Southwest. In these works, Eastlake faces the enduring tragedy of the American Indian — the destruction of a people and their culture in the name of freedom, religion, and prosperity.

Long before writers like Cormac McCarthy and Tom Robbins, Eastlake created a visionary New Mexico landscape that blends humor, satire, and sorrow. His fictional world is both comic and tragic, where the absurdities of modern America collide with the timeless dignity of its native people. With vivid prose and an unflinching sense of truth, Eastlake’s trilogy challenges the heroic myths of conquest, exposing instead a complex and wounded American heart.

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