****The author of** ***Denton Little's Deathdate*** **gives us a tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school.**** Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It
Laughing Boy
โ Scribed by Oliver La Farge
- Publisher
- Mariner Books; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 1929
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Edition
- Mariner Books (2004)
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0547527349
- ASIN
- B009UQ7KTY
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โฆ Synopsis
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Paperback, 193 pages
Published 1929
Mariner Books (2004)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1930)
Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic. At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"-educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of life and its tragic consequences.
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