Book description
First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to
Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies.
"The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was
first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I
suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the
nature of story. And this is particularly true of the oral tradition,
which exists in a dimension of timelessness. I was first told these
stories by my father when I was a child. I do not know how long they
had existed before I heard them. They seem to proceed from a place of
origin as old as the earth.
"The stories in The Way to Rainy Mountain are told in
three voices. The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral
voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second is the
voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal
reminiscence, my own voice. There is a turning and returning of myth,
history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as
language itself."--from the new Preface
N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 for his
novel
House Made of Dawn
. Several of his books are available from UNM Press, including
The
Way to Rainy Mountain
. He lives in Santa Fe.
