Laughing Boy
by La Farge, Oliver
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1951. 4th Printing . Trade Paperback. Good. 5" x 8. 302 Pages Sentry Edition with very attractive stiff covers. 302 pages. Tight clean book with store stamp inside back cover. No other marks. A lyrical beautifully told tale of Navaho life. But it is more than that because it is a beautiful love story without sentimentality. La Farge was the anthropologist who wrote down the Navaho alphabet to preserve their language and he writes with authority and genius. A Pulitzer Prize Winner.
Synopsis
Laughing Boy is a 1929 novel by Oliver La Farge about the clash between American culture and that of southwestern Native Americans. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3965
- Title
- Laughing Boy
- Author
- La Farge, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 5" x 8
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction Indians Navajo Southwest
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dons Book Store
Biblio member since 2005
Albuquerque, New Mexico
About Dons Book Store
We are a family owned and operated bookstore in same location for 52 years. We have built our business on integrity, professional and personal service. General line of new and used paperback and hardback books, comics and graphic novels.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.