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Laughing Boy
Laughing Boy
Author: Oliver La Farge
For more than a generation, this Pulitzer Prize novel has been admired as a classic rendering of Indian life. When it was first published [1929], Owen Wister wrote of it: "It is a daring experiment, triumphantly successful. To choose Navajo Indians as your material, to exclude the white man, save as the merest accidental accessory ... (and to br...  more »
ISBN: 417628
Pages: 302
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Sentry Edition)
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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reviewed Laughing Boy on + 298 more book reviews
good book will be reading more from this author..
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While I enjoyed this book, I was a tad disappointed. It was a Pulitzer Prize winner and I expected more than it wss (in my opinion). Anybody curious about it won't be sorry they read it, but may wonder (as I did) why it won the Pulitzer.
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First published in 1929, but still eminently readable, this novel tells the story of Laughing Boy and Slim Girl, two young Navajo who earn the disapproval of his peers by marrying without family approval.

Slim Girl is one of the countless young Native Americans who was taken away from her home in early childhood and sent to one of the Indian Boarding Schools designed to "civilize" young Native Americans by denying them their cultural heritage. Now a young woman wanting to return to tribal ways, she finds herself with a foot in each culture.


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