House Made of Dawn
By N. Scott Momaday
(Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Paperback, 9780060931940, 208pp.)
Publication Date: June 5, 1999
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (March 24, 2010)
Categories: Classics
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House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, a goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.
N. Scott Momaday is a novelist, a poet, and a painter. Among the awards he has received for writing are the Pulitzer Prize and the Premio Letterario Internazionale "Mondello." He is Regent's Professor of English at the University of Arizona, and he lives in Tucson with his wife and daughter.











