Laughing Boy - La Farge, Oliver

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Résumé :

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...

Sommaire:
it was the first novel about Native American life to receive the prize.