Laughing Boy - La Farge, Oliver
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2025 Reprint of the 1929 Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "A romantic idyll played out in the rhythms and meanings of a vanished Navajo world." -The Denver Post La Farge's enduring American classic and first novel captures the essence of the Southwest in 1915. At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American" educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of life and its tragic consequences. "A seminal book... Most of us read Laughing…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
2025 Reprint of the 1929 Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "A romantic idyll played out in the rhythms and meanings of a vanished Navajo world." -The Denver Post La Farge's enduring American classic and first novel captures the essence of the Southwest in 1915. At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American" educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of life and its tragic consequences. "A seminal book... Most of us read Laughing Boy when we were young and were awakened to the splendor of a new material for the American novel."- Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall "A daring experiment, triumphantly successful... The tale is haunting and poetic in an extraordinary degree.'- Owen Wister, author of The Virginian "Compelling in its strength and simplicity, and in its fidelity to the deepest impulses of human nature."- NEW YORK TIMES Oliver La Farge (1901-1963) first traveled to Navajo territory on a Harvard archaeological expedition. Laughing Boy, his first novel, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1930 as the book that best presented "the whole atmosphere of American life"; it was the first novel about Native American life to receive the prize.
Autorenporträt
Born in 1901, Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge is ranked among the literary lions of Southwestern letters. Since he died in 1963, his reputation has continued to grow and new honors have been added to his name. "Laughing Boy," a novel of Navajo life, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930, putting his name in lights before he was 30. His other books include "Behind the Mountains," "Raw Material: The Autobiographical Examination of an Artist's Journey into Maturity," "The Enemy Gods," "A Pause in the Desert and Other Stories," "Cochise of Arizona," and "The Mother Ditch," all available from Sunstone Press.