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Title: Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday ISBN: 0-8263-0436-2 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautifully Written Story
Comment: In his writing, Momaday creates a vibrant sense of how stories are expressed through living words within vital communities. His brillant blending of mythology, folktales, oral history, historical descriptions, and personal reflections all connect in a fascinating story about finding one's way in life's journeys. The writing is so vivid and the book is so animated that patient readers will connect with what Momaday presents, provided that they choose to share in the reflective silence that he offers on the way to Rainy Mountain.
Rating: 5
Summary: A timeless journey
Comment: The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday; illustrated by Al Momaday. Highly recommended.
Rainy Mountain, a "single knoll [that] rises out of the plain in Oklahoma," is an old landmark for the Kiowa people. It is a land of bitter cold, searing heat, summer drought, and "great green and yellow grasshoppers." It is a land of loneliness, where the Kiowa were drawn after a long journey from the northwest through many types of lands.
The Way to Rainy Mountain is about the journey-in myth, in drawings by Momaday's father Al, in reminiscences, and in historical snippets. All reveal aspects of Kiowa culture, life, philosophy, outlook, spirituality, and sense of self-the beauty and the desolation, how the introduction of the horse revolutionized Kiowa life, the story of Tai-me, and the richness of the word and the past. It is a literal journey as well; Momaday, in Yellowstone, writes, "The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent and blind in the wilderness."
This is a small gem of a book, beautifully written, illustrated, and designed. It has moments of insight, beauty, and sadness, as the ending of the Sun Dance, telling as the sun is at the heart of the Kiowa's soul-a soul that survives in every word and drawing of The Way to Rainy Mountain.
Diane L. Schirf, 3 March 2002.
Rating: 4
Summary: Unique
Comment: This book is deceptively short: it can be read in about an hour, but you find yourself going back and reading its various passages and thinking about them long afterwards. Momaday tells a story of the Kiowa Indians by tying in three aspects: folklore, actual historical events and his own family history. The book's format underscores this, with the first, folkloric item printed on one page, and the historical and personal reflections in separate paragraphs on the facing page, all set in different fonts. Not meant to be a comprehensive account of the Kiowas, it is rather an attempt to express the author's own feelings and his own view of his heritage. In this he largely succeeds, as he writes poetry in a simple yet powerful prose form. The only shortcoming for me were the illustrations (done by Momaday's father), which seemed to add little to the overall narrative. Otherwise, "The Way to Rainy Moutain" is a very unique and worthwhile book.
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Title: House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics) by N. Scott Momaday ISBN: 0060931949 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Leslie Marmon Silko ISBN: 0140086838 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Ancient Child: A Novel by N. Scott Momaday ISBN: 0060973455 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Winter in the Blood (Contemporary American Fiction Series) by James Welch ISBN: 0140086447 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich ISBN: 0060975547 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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