Laughing Boy

<p>2025 Reprint of the 1929 Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A romantic idyll played out in the rhythms and meanings of a vanished Navajo world. -The Denver Post</p><p>La Farge's enduring American classic and first novel captures the essence of the Southwest in 1915. At a ceremonial dance the young earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl a beautiful but elusive American educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love the couple must face a changing way of life and its tragic consequences.</p><p>A seminal book... Most of us read <em>Laughing Boy </em>when we were young and were awakened to the splendor of a new material for the American novel.- Jim Harrison author of <em>Legends of the Fall</em></p><p>A daring experiment triumphantly successful... The tale is haunting and poetic in an extraordinary degree.'- Owen Wister author of <em>The Virginian</em></p><p>Compelling in its strength and simplicity and in its fidelity to the deepest impulses of human nature.- NEW YORK TIMES</p><p>Oliver La Farge (1901-1963) first traveled to Navajo territory on a Harvard archaeological expedition<em>. Laughing Boy</em> his first novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1930 as the book that best presented the whole atmosphere of American life; it was the first novel about Native American life to receive the prize.</p><p><br></p>