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Momaday N. Scott - The Ancient Child - Paperback
Momaday N. Scott - The Ancient Child - Paperback
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Description: " An intriguing combination of myth fiction and storytelling that demonstrates the continuing power and range of Momaday's creative vision. These are magical words. Listen." Washington Post Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist and poet N. Scott Momaday shapes the ancient Kiowa myth of a boy who turned into a bear into a timeless American classic. The Ancient Child juxtaposes Indian lore and Wild West legend into a hypnotic often lyrical contemporary novel. It is the story of Locke Setman known as Set a Native American raised far from the reservation by his adoptive father. Set feels a strange aching in his soul and returning to tribal lands for the funeral of his grandmother is drawn irresistibly to the fabled bear - boy. When he meets Grey a beautiful young medicine woman with a visionary gift his world is turned upside down. Here is a magical saga of one man's tormented search for his identity a quintessential American novel and a great one.
Title: The Ancient Child
Author(s): Momaday N. Scott
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060973452
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/12/1990
Description: " An intriguing combination of myth fiction and storytelling that demonstrates the continuing power and range of Momaday's creative vision. These are magical words. Listen." Washington Post Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist and poet N. Scott Momaday shapes the ancient Kiowa myth of a boy who turned into a bear into a timeless American classic. The Ancient Child juxtaposes Indian lore and Wild West legend into a hypnotic often lyrical contemporary novel. It is the story of Locke Setman known as Set a Native American raised far from the reservation by his adoptive father. Set feels a strange aching in his soul and returning to tribal lands for the funeral of his grandmother is drawn irresistibly to the fabled bear - boy. When he meets Grey a beautiful young medicine woman with a visionary gift his world is turned upside down. Here is a magical saga of one man's tormented search for his identity a quintessential American novel and a great one.
Title: The Ancient Child
Author(s): Momaday N. Scott
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060973452
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/12/1990