The Names (Sun Tracks, Band 16) - Softcover

Momaday, N. Scott

 
9780816510467: The Names (Sun Tracks, Band 16)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816510466 ISBN 13: 9780816510467
Verlag: UNIV OF ARIZONA PR, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist recalls the significant events and ventures of his own life, his own land, and his own people, recreating his experiences as an American Indian and those of his relatives

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A preeminent practitioner of twentieth century literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best known for having blazed a trail for contemporary Native American writers. A Pulitzer Prize winner and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Momaday in many respects is a class unto himself. Momaday is Regents Professor of English at the University of Arizona. A popular speaker, he narrated the PBS series The West.

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Of all of the works of N. Scott Momaday, The Names may be the most personal. A memoir of his boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest, it is also described by Momaday as "an act of the imagination. When I turn my mind to my early life, it is the imaginative part of it that comes first and irresistibly into reach, and of that part I take hold". Complete with family photos, The Names is a book that will captivate readers who wish to experience the Native American way of life.

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Of all of the works of N. Scott Momaday, "The Names" may be the most personal. A memoir of his boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest, it is also described by Momaday as "an act of the imagination. When I turn my mind to my early life, it is the imaginative part of it that comes first and irresistibly into reach, and of that part I take hold." Complete with family photos, "The Names" is a book that will captivate readers who wish to experience the Native American way of life.

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Verlag
UNIV OF ARIZONA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0816510466
ISBN 13 
9780816510467
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
184
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