| The Names: Volume 16 Contributor(s): Momaday, N. Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816510466 ISBN-13: 9780816510467 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1987 Annotation: Of all of the works of N. Scott Momaday, The Names may be the most personal. A memoir of his boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest, it is also described by Momaday as "an act of the imagination. When I turn my mind to my early life, it is the imaginative part of it that comes first and irresistibly into reach, and of that part I take hold". Complete with family photos, The Names is a book that will captivate readers who wish to experience the Native American way of life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Native American & Aboriginal - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 87018785 |
| Series: Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.7" W x 8.65" (0.57 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Of all of the works of N. Scott Momaday, The Names may be the most personal. A memoir of his boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest, it is also described by Momaday as an act of the imagination. When I turn my mind to my early life, it is the imaginative part of it that comes first and irresistibly into reach, and of that part I take hold. Complete with family photos, The Names is a book that will captivate readers who wish to experience the Native American way of life. |