Ancient Child

by N. Scott Momaday

2021-05-28 10:55:35

"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 PostPulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet ... Read more

"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.

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ISBN9780060973452
Navarre Scott Momaday (born Feb 27, 1934) is a Kiowa novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. His novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 and is considered ...

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