In the Bear's House
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Document Type
Book
Description
N. Scott Momaday's unique connection to the beauty and spirituality of the natural world surfaces in all of his works, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn to his more recent collection In the Presence of the Sun. Yet In the Bear's House is Momaday's intensely personal quest to understand the spirit of the wilderness embodied in the animal image of Bear. Intimately linked to Bear since his childhood, Momaday searches for this elusive yet omnipresent spirit who is both the keeper and the manifestation of the wild mountains, rivers, and plains. Exploring themes of anguish, forgiveness, and belief, Momaday journeys from the bitter Siberian taiga to the blackening night sky to deep within his own timeless essence, and reveals Bear to be both a radiant presence and spiritual restorative.
Publication Date
1999
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
City
New York
State
NY
Award
2019 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Fiction
Repository Citation
Momaday , N. S. (1999). In the Bear's House. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
