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  • Laughing Boy

    de La Farge ...
    Laughing Boy is the name of a young Navajo man living in the American Southwest during the era when the Americans are pushing westward in earnest. He's looking to find his way in the world and earn the respect of his tribe, when he meets a mysterious and fiery young woman, Slim Girl, at a tribal meet.Slim Girl was raised in an American Indian school, a type of boarding school designed by ... Leer más

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  • Laughing Boy

    A Navajo Love Story

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "A romantic idyll played out in the rhythms and meanings of a vanished Navajo world." — The Denver PostLaughing Boy is a model member of his tribe. Raised in old traditions, skilled in silver work, and known for his prowess in the wild horse races, he does the Navajos of T'o Tlakai proud. But times are changing. It is 1914, and the first car has just driven into ... Leer más

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  • The Night Ocean

    A Novel

    de Paul La Farge ...
    From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived ... Leer más

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  • Laughing Boy

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "A romantic idyll played out in the rhythms and meanings of a vanished Navajo world." — The Denver PostWritten in 1929 by the anthropologist Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy offers an intimate glimpse into the Navajo culture of the southwestern United States. In lyrical prose and with soaring descriptions of the landscape and its people, the book captures a romance ... Leer más

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  • A Pause in the Desert and Other Stories

    Facsimile of 1957 edition

    Oliver La Farge covers many aspects of everyday life in these sixteen stories, which range from an old man facing death alone in the Mexican bush to some boys facing the responsibilities of life at St. Peter's school; from the science fiction world of computing machines to the world of gourmets; and from the violent death of a man off the Rhode Island coast to the quiet death of a marriage in New ... Leer más

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  • Raw Material

    The Autobiographical Examination of an Artist's Journey into Maturity

    The long, uneasy armistice between two world wars was a trying time for literary artists, particularly for those young men who came to maturity in that period of economic and social upheaval. Oliver La Farge's frank and honest personal narrative is a typical life of one born into the easy world of Newport, New York, Groton, and Harvard, dumped into the melting pot of the Great Depression, and then ... Leer más

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  • Behind the Mountains

    Imagine yourself in a secluded green valley high in the mountains of northern New Mexico. You are one of a large family who own a sheep and cattle ranch surrounding the little village of Rociada. Your father, a Spaniard, is the revered and distinguished José Baca, and your mother, Doña Marguerite, is of French descent. Everyone in the village loves and respects your family as their patrones, ... Leer más

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  • The Man with the Calabash Pipe

    Some Observations

    From 1950 until just before his death in 1963, Pulitzer Prize winner (for Laughing Boy) Oliver La Farge wrote weekly columns for The Santa Fe New Mexican-a total of some 350,000 words. A collection of these writings was edited in 1966 by his friend, Winfield Townley Scott and published as "The Man With the Calabash Pipe." As Scott says in his introduction, "Though often in the background, and with ... Leer más

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  • Puvis de Chavannes

    Pierre Puvis de Chavannes is not a very well-known artist. Famous throughout his life yet quickly forgotten by the history of art, his work remains little-studied in comparison to the Impressionist masterpieces of the same period. His oeuvre, however, was crucial in France at the end of the 19th century, in particular his mural paintings which are still visible today in numerous important public ... Leer más

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  • Laughing Boy (Illustrated)

    Illustrated Edition – Includes 20 Beautiful IllustrationsComplete Book SummaryDetailed Character ListAuthor Biography of Oliver La FargeStep into the hauntingly beautiful world of the American Southwest with Laughing Boy, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Oliver La Farge—a timeless classic of love, culture, and quiet tragedy.Set among the Navajo p... ... Leer más

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  • Reminiscences of the South Seas

    de John La Farge ...
    San Francisco was the same place, with the same curious feeling of its being cold while one felt the heat; but there was neither place, time nor anything for me; there were things to buy and replace—all sorts of things had been forgotten, and now more than ever I realize that it is well to be overloaded—even if I believe that later I should feel it. What I want I want badly, and San Francisco is ... Leer más

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  • Laughing Boy (Classicus Edition)

    Published in 1929, Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge is a tender and evocative exploration of cultural identity, love, and resilience in the face of change. Set in the early 20th century, the novel provides a vivid portrayal of Navajo life during a period when traditional ways were increasingly threatened by external pressures and assimilationist policies.The story follows Laughing Boy, a proud and ... Leer más

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