"Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A beautiful artistic object, a book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains." – The Paris Review
"Dazzling. . . . Momaday [is] an important voice in American letters." – Los Angeles Times
"Superb." – New York Times Book Review
"Authentic and powerful. . . . Anyone who picks up this novel and reads the first paragraph will be hard pressed to put it down." – Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A beautiful and moving tale. Intricately conceived . . . executed with easy lyricism. Mr. Momaday's performance is brilliant." – Publishers Weekly
"A new romanticism, with a reverence for the land, a transcendent optimism, and a sense of mythic wholeness...Push[es] the secular mode of modern fiction into the sacred mode, a faith and recognition in the power of the world." – American Literature
"Mr. Momaday has a superb sense of imagery. . . . There is a rich treasury of Pueblo Indian lore on almost every page." – Baltimore Sun
"A tragic story...one of considerable power and beauty." – The Nation
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