The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native American, Abel has come home from a foreign war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world -- modern, industrial America -- pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, claiming his soul, goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust. And the young man, torn in two, descends into hell.
The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native American, Abel has come home from a foreign war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world -- modern, industrial America -- pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, claiming his soul, goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust. And the young man, torn in two, descends into hell.
N. Scott Momaday is a novelist, a poet, and a painter. Among the awards he has received for writing are the Pulitzer Prize and the Premio Letterario Internazionale "Mondello." He is Regent's Professor of English at the University of Arizona, and he lives in Tucson with his wife and daughter.
“Dazzling....Momaday [is] an important voice in American
letters.”
*Los Angeles Times*
“Superb.”
*New York Times Book Review*
“Authentic and powerful...Anyone who picks up this novel and reads
the first paragraph will be hard pressed to put it down.”
*Cleveland Plain Dealer*
“Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a
masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A beautiful
artistic object, a book everyone should read for the joy and
emotion of the language it contains.”
*The Paris Review*
“A beautiful and moving tale. Intricately conceived...executed with
easy lyricism. Mr. Momaday’s performance is brilliant.”
*Publishers Weekly*
“A new romanticism, with a reverence for the land, a transcendent
optimism, and a sense of mythic wholeness...Push[es] the secular
mode of modern fiction into the sacred mode, a faith and
recognition in the power of the world.”
*American Literature*
“Mr. Momaday has a superb sense of imagery....There is a rich
treasury of Pueblo Indian lore on almost every page.”
*Baltimore Sun*
“A tragic story…one of considerable power and beauty.”
*The Nation*
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