The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages

by N. Scott Momaday

Book Overview

In "The Man Made of Words" Momaday chronicles his own pilgrimage as an author, retelling, through thirty-eight essays, allegorical stories, and autobiographical reminiscences, how he became one of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312187424
• ISBN13: 9780312187422
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

N. Scott Momaday: A Master of Time, History, and Language

N. Scott Momaday is the most intelligent, thought-provoking, and beautiful writer of this century. I went to a reading at Emory University in Atlanta, GA a few weeks before this book was published throughout the country. The book mixes the beauty of language with the complexity of the human experience with the spirit of the Bear-- breathing heavily, seductively down the neck of the reader. This book, novel, essay collection: is essential for anyone who understands or who longs to understand the living, breathing entity that is language-- and that language which constitutes our own nature and being.