Laughing Boy

di La Farge (Autore)

Waking Lion Press, 2026

Laughing Boy is the name of a young Navajo man living in the American Southwest during the era when the Americans are pushing westward in earnest. He's looking to find his way in the world and earn the respect of his tribe, when he meets a mysterious and fiery young woman, Slim Girl, at a tribal meet. Slim Girl was raised in an American Indian school, a type of boarding school designed by missionaries to "civilize" the native population. Her experiences there left her deeply resentful, and this bitterness carries on in her approach to the world: where Laughing Boy is optimistic, respectful of tradition, and comfortable with himself, Slim Girl is calculating, tough, and secretive. The two quickly fall in love, but Laughing Boy's family warns against the union-it seems that Slim Girl has a reputation that precedes her. Despite the warning, the two begin a life together in a way that blends the traditional with the new American, before a dark secret in Slim Girl's past threatens their happiness. The story is, on its face, a love story, but La Farge uses the framework of a romance to explore much deeper questions of tradition, native versus Western lifestyles, and how the inexorable expansion of Americans into the West changed things for the civilizations living there. La Farge was not just a novelist-he was also an anthropologist who spent much of his career studying Native Americans, the Navajo in particular. His deep knowledge of their culture, practices, and language allows him to create a convincing air of authenticity in the narrative, which went on to earn the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1930. A haunting, lyrical story of love and cultural collision on the American frontier, Laughing Boy remains a landmark portrayal of Navajo life written with rare authenticity and heart. The source for this public-domain ebook is Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org). Ebooks from other sources often have typos, inconsistent spelling, missing accent marks, and missing punctuation. Ebooks from Standard Ebooks are proofread line by line against a scan of the original printed pages, then proofread again from cover to cover. They are also formatted and typeset following a professional-grade style manual, resulting in new editions supporting state-of-the-art ereader technology: automatic hyphenation, popup footnotes, complete and consistent metadata, high-resolution and scalable vector graphics, and ereader-compatible tables of contents. All of this makes the finished ebooks accurate, functional, and beautiful, a pleasure to read. (Waking Lion Press is not affiliated with or endorsed by Standard Ebooks.)

• Autore: La Farge
• Editore: Waking Lion Press
• Formato: EPUB3 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
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• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9781434125491