The Man Made of Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man Made of Words write by N. Scott Momaday. This book was released on 1997. The Man Made of Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collects the author's writings on sacred geography, Billy the Kid, actor Jay Silverheels, ecological ethics, Navajo place names, and old ways of knowing.
The Way to Rainy Mountain
The Way to Rainy Mountain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Way to Rainy Mountain write by N. Scott Momaday. This book was released on 1976-09-01. The Way to Rainy Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. "The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the nature of story. And this is particularly true of the oral tradition, which exists in a dimension of timelessness. I was first told these stories by my father when I was a child. I do not know how long they had existed before I heard them. They seem to proceed from a place of origin as old as the earth. "The stories in The Way to Rainy Mountain are told in three voices. The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, my own voice. There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself."--from the new Preface
House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed]
House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed] write by N. Scott Momaday. This book was released on 2018-12-18. House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains.” — The Paris Review A special 50th anniversary edition of the magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from renowned Kiowa writer and poet N. Scott Momaday, with a new preface by the author A young Native American, Abel has come home from 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, trying to claim his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust. An American classic, House Made of Dawn is at once a tragic tale about the disabling effects of war and cultural separation, and a hopeful story of a stranger in his native land, finding his way back to all that is familiar and sacred.
The Man Made of Words
The Man Made of Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man Made of Words write by N. Scott Momaday. This book was released on 1997. The Man Made of Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collects the author's writings on sacred geography, Billy the Kid, actor Jay Silverheels, ecological ethics, Navajo place names, and old ways of knowing
A Man Without Words
A Man Without Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Man Without Words write by Susan Schaller. This book was released on 2014-05-15. A Man Without Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words. The book vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language. This second edition includes a new chapter and afterword.
