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  • Laughing Boy
    Oliver La Farge
    Pulitzer Prize Winner! A Timeless Tale of Love, Tradition, and IdentitySet in the majestic landscape of the American Southwest, Laughing Boy is a powerful, award-winning novel about the clash between traditional Native American values and the pressures of modern assimilation. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this literary classic explores the beauty and heartbreak of a...
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  • Laughing Boy
    Oliver La Farge
    Pulitzer Prize Winner! A Timeless Tale of Love, Tradition, and IdentitySet in the majestic landscape of the American Southwest, Laughing Boy is a powerful, award-winning novel about the clash between traditional Native American values and the pressures of modern assimilation. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this literary classic explores the beauty and heartbreak of a...
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    24,04 €

  • Laughing Boy
    Oliver La Farge
    Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge is a coming-of-age novel set in 1915 among the Navajo people of the American Southwest. It follows Laughing Boy, a young Navajo man skilled in traditional crafts and proud of his heritage, as he meets and falls in love with Slim Girl, a Navajo woman who has been raised in a white-run boarding school.Their romance is marked by cultural tension-Sli...
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    18,31 €

  • Laughing Boy
    Oliver La Farge
    Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge is a coming-of-age novel set in 1915 among the Navajo people of the American Southwest. It follows Laughing Boy, a young Navajo man skilled in traditional crafts and proud of his heritage, as he meets and falls in love with Slim Girl, a Navajo woman who has been raised in a white-run boarding school.Their romance is marked by cultural tension-Sli...
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    32,18 €

  • Laughing Boy
    Oliver La Farge
    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.At a tribal event, Laughing Boy encounters a beautiful, mysterious young woman known as Slim Girl, and the two are soon attracted to each other. Complication...
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    19,92 €

  • Laughing Boy
    Oliver La Farge
    2025 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 PostLa 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 ...
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    12,22 €

  • Laughing Boy
    Oliver La Farge
    Laughing Boy is a novel by Oliver La Farge, published in 1929. It is set in the American Southwest in the early 20th century and tells the story of a young Navajo man named Laughing Boy and his romance with Slim Girl, a fellow Navajo who has been influenced by white culture.The novel explores themes of cultural conflict, identity, and love as Laughing Boy tries to reconcile his...
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    21,00 €

  • The Mother Ditch
    Oliver La Farge
    The mother ditch, or acequia madre, is the main water line that is dug by hand and feeds many of the smaller acequias that cover the fertile land of Northern New Mexico. The acequias, water ditches, were used to irrigate the fields of crops for many farmers in the early days of settlement in New Mexico. A unique technology, the acequia, especially the mother ditch, had to be ta...
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    16,50 €

  • Cochise of Arizona
    Oliver La Farge
    This is the true story, told in fictional form, of one of the greatest of all American Indian chiefs, Cochise of the Chiricahua Apaches. Indians were once thought of as warlike, and the encroaching white men as wanting peace, but it was the white men who forced Cochise into war against his will. History tells us that Cochise and his tiny band of warriors not only held the Unite...
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    21,01 €

  • Cochise of Arizona
    Oliver La Farge
    This is the true story, told in fictional form, of one of the greatest of all American Indian chiefs, Cochise of the Chiricahua Apaches. Indians were once thought of as warlike, and the encroaching white men as wanting peace, but it was the white men who forced Cochise into war against his will. History tells us that Cochise and his tiny band of warriors not only held the Unite...
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    30,16 €

  • The Man with the Calabash Pipe
    Oliver La Farge
    From 1950 until just before his death in 1963, Pulitzer Prize winner (for Laughing Boy) Oliver La Farge wrote weekly columns for The Santa Fe New Mexican-a total of some 350,000 words. A collection of these writings was edited in 1966 by his friend, Winfield Townley Scott and published as 'The Man With the Calabash Pipe.' As Scott says in his introduction, 'Though often in the ...
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    22,44 €

  • The Man with the Calabash Pipe
    Oliver La Farge
    From 1950 until just before his death in 1963, Pulitzer Prize winner (for Laughing Boy) Oliver La Farge wrote weekly columns for The Santa Fe New Mexican-a total of some 350,000 words. A collection of these writings was edited in 1966 by his friend, Winfield Townley Scott and published as 'The Man With the Calabash Pipe.' As Scott says in his introduction, 'Though often in the ...
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    31,61 €

  • The Enemy Gods
    Oliver La Farge
    In his first book, the Pulitzer Prize novel 'Laughing Boy,' Oliver La Farge gave us a superb lyrical story of Navajo Indian life. In the fullness of his maturity as a writer, he later returned to the Navajo scene with 'The Enemy Gods,' a richer, deeper book than he had written before and its theme, both an absorbing story and a living social document, is nearer to his heart. It...
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    24,80 €

  • The Enemy Gods
    Oliver La Farge
    In his first book, the Pulitzer Prize novel 'Laughing Boy,' Oliver La Farge gave us a superb lyrical story of Navajo Indian life. In the fullness of his maturity as a writer, he later returned to the Navajo scene with 'The Enemy Gods,' a richer, deeper book than he had written before and its theme, both an absorbing story and a living social document, is nearer to his heart. It...
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    32,21 €

  • A Pause in the Desert and Other Stories
    Oliver La Farge
    Oliver La Farge covers many aspects of everyday life in these sixteen stories, which range from an old man facing death alone in the Mexican bush to some boys facing the responsibilities of life at St. Peter’s school; from the science fiction world of computing machines to the world of gourmets; and from the violent death of a man off the Rhode Island coast to the quiet death o...
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    22,53 €

  • A Pause in the Desert and Other Stories
    Oliver La Farge
    Oliver La Farge covers many aspects of everyday life in these sixteen stories, which range from an old man facing death alone in the Mexican bush to some boys facing the responsibilities of life at St. Peter’s school; from the science fiction world of computing machines to the world of gourmets; and from the violent death of a man off the Rhode Island coast to the quiet death o...
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    31,70 €

  • Raw Material
    Oliver La Farge
    The long, uneasy armistice between two world wars was a trying time for literary artists, particularly for those young men who came to maturity in that period of economic and social upheaval. Oliver La Farge’s frank and honest personal narrative is a typical life of one born into the easy world of Newport, New York, Groton, and Harvard, dumped into the melting pot of the Great ...
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    20,84 €

  • Behind the Mountains
    Oliver La Farge
    Imagine yourself in a secluded green valley high in the mountains of northern New Mexico. You are one of a large family who own a sheep and cattle ranch surrounding the little village of Rociada. Your father, a Spaniard, is the revered and distinguished José Baca, and your mother, Doña Marguerite, is of French descent. Everyone in the village loves and respects your family as t...
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    20,99 €