Oliver La Farge
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| Title | : | Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story |
| Author | : | Oliver La Farge |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 193 pages |
| Published | : | June 5th 2004 by Mariner Books (first published 1929) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic. 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.Particularize Books As Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
| Original Title: | Laughing Boy |
| ISBN: | 0618446729 (ISBN13: 9780618446723) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1930) |
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Ratings: 3.74 From 3141 Users | 207 ReviewsWrite Up Appertaining To Books Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
If you've ever been displaced, and yearned for roots, like I have, this is the novel for you. The ache that is left behind, after you finish reading this, is of a certain dull pain achieved by years and years of yearning that you wish you could belong, and yet that you will never be a part of the culture you call your own. I have a confession to make - I visited New York City and found it empty. It is in my quest to find out what the roots of this country are, that I got this book at a storeI don't know who Oliver La Farge is...I should google him...but he knows how to think like a Navajo (in my humble Caucasian opinion). I've spent a teensy amount of time in the Southwest hiking on my own, looking at petroglyphs, reading interpretive signs at national parks, and even listening to some audio in the car about how to learn the language (I found some similarities in learning Japanese), but in the end, I'm not an Indian. I am especially not a Navajo. I am glad, however, that I once
"Laughing Boy," published in 1929, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930. Oliver La Farge 1901-1920 is the writer.The story is a good depiction of Navajo life and the coming of age of "Laughing Boy," a young Navajo Indian who meets Slim Girl at a ceremonial Indian dance. They fall in love and marry against his family's wishes.Laughing Boy is an innocent and loves horses, tribal dances and competition of all kinds. After he wins events at the ceremonial dance when he met Slim Girl, he is coerced into
This book dropped me straight into the canyons of New Mexico, and the early, unsettled contact between the northern Navajo nation, The People, and those they called Americans, whose chief was in Washingdon.Laughing Boys enjoyment of Navajo gatherings, races, and dances conveyed much about what The People most esteemed - namely, to follow the trail of beauty. Laughing Boy was more than just what that name implied; one felt the warrior under the gaiety, and by his songs and silver, he was an
When I realized this book was about Native Americans, I almost put it down.Laughing Boy was part of my project to read every Pulitzer winning novel, and I was still fresh from slogging through the Negro story that won the year before (1929). Sister Scarlet Mary was cringe-worthy and I had no reason to think that 1930 would treat the Navajos any better. (As a side note, the About the Author page of Sister Scarlet Mary actually says, [Julia Peterkin] loves the Negro and understands him. She
First, what I liked about this novel: La Farge wrote from his anthropology notes and included ethnographic details in the name of Realism. The veneer works as a literary device. Also, and based on this, in my reading of this novel, I got a strong sense of place and custom. Next, what distracted me: Laughing Boy as La Farge presents him is Uncle Tomahawk: an Indian version of a step-and-fetch-it. His good nature at being taken advantage of, esp. by Slim Girl (whose real name is Comes With War)
Full review at Smoke & Mirrors: http://books-n-music.blogspot.com/201.... I am giving this a full 5 stars because I "feel" as if this book gives genuine insight into the Native American (specifically Navajo) culture, society, and particularly belief system. However, this was written by a "white guy" and this is one of the few times in my life when I'm questioning the overall authenticity of the writing/expression of Navajo life at the time. Although La Farge was an anthropologist who studied
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