About the Author

OLIVER LA FARGE (1901-1963) first traveled to Navajo territory on a Harvard archaeological dig. Laughing Boy was his first novel.

Reviews

"[A novel of] lucid beauty, vital artistic imagination, and a clear, almost hypnotic style." -- New York Times"A romantic idyll played out in the rhythms and meanings of a vanished Navajo world." -- Denver Post"A seminal book. . . . Most of us read Laughing Boy when we were young and were awakened to the splendor of a new material for the American novel." -- Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall"A daring experiment, triumphantly successful. . . . The tale is haunting and poetic in an extraordinary degree." -- Owen Wister, author of The Virginian"Compelling in its strength and simplicity, and in its fidelity to the deepest impulses of human nature." -- New York Times