Synopses & Reviews
Since receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his first novel,
House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday has had one of the most remarkable careers in twentieth-century American letters. Here, in
In the Bear's House, Momaday passionately explores themes of loneliness, sacredness and aggression through his depiction of Bear, the one animal that has both inspired and haunted him throughout his lifetime.
Winner of the Oaklahoma Book Award for Poetry, In the Bear's House celebrates Momaday's extraordinary creative vision and evolution as one of our most gifted artists with transcendent dignity and gentleness.
Review
"The Pulitzer-winning novelist offers this mixed media collage forty paintings, a dialogue, twenty or so poems, and two poetic prose sections all on the subject of the bear (or 'Bear'), an animal of cosmic and spiritual significance among Momaday's Kiowa Indians....Momaday's clean and sharp measures enhance a number of well-made poems that date mostly from recent times, but include a stunning portrait of a bear first written in 1963....The bold brushstrokes of Momaday's paintings echo the power and precision of his poetry and prose." Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
N. Scott Momaday is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Premio Letterario Internazionale "Mondello," Italy's highest literary award. Momaday is a writer, poet, and playwright whose books include
The Man Made of Words,
House Made of Dawn, and
In the Presence of the Sun. He lives in Jemez Springs, New Mexico.