Fallen Man Summary
Tony Hillerman

Fallen Man Summary

Hillerman works through three important themes in the novel. The first of these is indicated in the title, Fallen Man.

Two men fall in the novel, Hal Breedlove, who fell to his death a decade earlier, and Eldon Demott, who leaps to his death near the novel's conclusion. The term "fallen," however, refers not only to the physical events. It also refers to the theological concept of the fallen condition of the human...

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