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Book Title
Names
Publication Name
The Names
Title
The Names
Format
Trade Paperback
EAN
9780816510467
ISBN
9780816510467
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Fiction
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Native American & Aboriginal, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native Americans
Release Date
30/11/1987
Release Year
1987
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Weight
8 Oz
Author
N. Scott Momaday
Item Length
8.5in
Publication Year
1987
Item Height
0.5in
Features
Reprint
Item Width
5.5in
Number of Pages
184 Pages

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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 ...

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Arizona Press
ISBN-10
0816510466
ISBN-13
9780816510467
eBay Product ID (ePID)
624401

Product Key Features

Book Title
Names
Author
N. Scott Momaday
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Native American & Aboriginal, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native Americans
Publication Year
1987
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Fiction
Number of Pages
184 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Series Volume Number
16
Lc Classification Number
Ps501.S85 Vol. 16
Edition Description
Reprint
Edition Number
2
Reviews
"It is a search and a celebration, a book of identities and sources....Out of ordinary materials--genealogy, tribal tales, memories of a boyhood spent in Oklahoma, at Ship Rock in the Navajo country and at the Jemez pueblo, where his parents taught school--he has built a mystical, provocative book." --Wallace Stegner, New York Times "A Native American version of Roots . . . full of the sense of wonder that characterizes classic American literature." -- Choice "Graceful, lucid prose...[Momaday] is forever an Indian and the reader understands why." -- Atlantic Monthly "With the eye of a painter and the voice of a poet, Momaday vividly recreates a childhood world of color, sound, and experience played out against the backdrop of tribal tales and in the shadow of revered forebears. . . . An eloquent statement of this distinguished Native American author's search for identity." -- Journal of Arizona History, "It is a search and a celebration, a book of identities and sources....Out of ordinary materials-genealogy, tribal tales, memories of a boyhood spent in Oklahoma, at Ship Rock in the Navajo country and at the Jemez pueblo, where his parents taught school-he has built a mystical, provocative book." —Wallace Stegner, New York Times "A Native American version of 'Roots' . . . full of the sense of wonder that characterizes classic American literature." — Choice "Graceful, lucid prose...[Momaday] is forever an Indian and the reader understands why." — Atlantic Monthly "With the eye of a painter and the voice of a poet, Momaday vividly recreates a childhood world of color, sound, and experience played out against the backdrop of tribal tales and in the shadow of revered forebears. . . . An eloquent statement of this distinguished Native American author's search for identity." — Journal of Arizona History, "It is a search and a celebration, a book of identities and sources....Out of ordinary materials-genealogy, tribal tales, memories of a boyhood spent in Oklahoma, at Ship Rock in the Navajo country and at the Jemez pueblo, where his parents taught school-he has built a mystical, provocative book." -Wallace Stegner, New York Times "A Native American version of 'Roots' . . . full of the sense of wonder that characterizes classic American literature." - Choice "Graceful, lucid prose...[Momaday is forever an Indian and the reader understands why." - Atlantic Monthly "With the eye of a painter and the voice of a poet, Momaday vividly recreates a childhood world of color, sound, and experience played out against the backdrop of tribal tales and in the shadow of revered forebears. . . . An eloquent statement of this distinguished Native American author's search for identity." - Journal of Arizona History, "It is a search and a celebration, a book of identities and sources....Out of ordinary materials—genealogy, tribal tales, memories of a boyhood spent in Oklahoma, at Ship Rock in the Navajo country and at the Jemez pueblo, where his parents taught school—he has built a mystical, provocative book." —Wallace Stegner, New York Times "A Native American version of 'Roots' . . . full of the sense of wonder that characterizes classic American literature." — Choice "Graceful, lucid prose...[Momaday] is forever an Indian and the reader understands why." — Atlantic Monthly "With the eye of a painter and the voice of a poet, Momaday vividly recreates a childhood world of color, sound, and experience played out against the backdrop of tribal tales and in the shadow of revered forebears. . . . An eloquent statement of this distinguished Native American author's search for identity." — Journal of Arizona History
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
87-018785
Dewey Decimal
810.8 S
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Sun Tracks Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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