{"product_id":"laughing-boy-paperback-2","title":"Laughing Boy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOliver La Farge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2025 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A seminal book... Most of us read \u003cem\u003eLaughing Boy \u003c\/em\u003ewhen we were young and were awakened to the splendor of a new material for the American novel.\"- Jim Harrison, author of \u003cem\u003eLegends of the Fall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A daring experiment, triumphantly successful... The tale is haunting and poetic in an extraordinary degree.'- Owen Wister, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Virginian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Compelling in its strength and simplicity, and in its fidelity to the deepest impulses of human nature.\"- NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOliver La Farge (1901-1963) first traveled to Navajo territory on a Harvard archaeological expedition\u003cem\u003e. Laughing Boy\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47262763843833,"sku":"9781684229376","price":15.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/eOZZa0oglt9781684229376.webp?v=1768813462","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/laughing-boy-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}