Ancient ChildIn his first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn, 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--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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N. Scott Momaday. 3. The. next. moment. is. forever. to. come. Never had Grey to quest after visions. She lay on her back, stretched out on the prairie grass, looking up at the great, drifting clouds and grinding her hips. "Aw, damn it to ...
... the handsome, black-hatted head. Never had Grey to quest after visions. They happened upon her irresistibly and all the time. A chill wave on the wind rolled over her and lifted a hank of hair across her throat. THE. ANCIENT. CHILD.
... drums—and in that lapse and hush the people let the summer go, mindful that the earth was going on from season to season, bearing them to a destiny. 5 Grey considers her appearance Grey considered her appearance in 15.
N. Scott Momaday. 5. Grey. considers. her. appearance. Grey considered her appearance in a small metal mirror that she had drawn from her shirt pocket and now held between the tips of her right thumb and middle finger, both stained with ...
... Grey's fingertips, and she read them during her most impressionable years. She read Homer and Shakespeare and the Bible. She read Will James and Walter Noble Burns. She read Robert Service and Emily Dickinson. Laughing Boy affected her ...