In the Bears House, N. Scott Momaday
In the Bears House, N. Scott Momaday
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In the Bear's House

Author: N. Scott Momaday

Narrator: Christopher Salazar

Unabridged: 2 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/07/2023


Synopsis

"Let me say at the outset that this book is not about Bear (he would be spoken of in the singular and masculine, capitalized and without an article), or it is only incidentally about him. I am less interested in defining the being of Bear than in trying to understand something about the spirit of wilderness, of which Bear is a very particular expression . . . Bear is a template of the wilderness."—from the Introduction

Since receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his novel House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday has had one of the most remarkable careers in twentieth-century American letters. Here, in In the Bear's House, Momaday passionately explores themes of loneliness, sacredness, and aggression through his depiction of Bear, the one animal that has both inspired and haunted him throughout his lifetime.

With transcendent dignity and gentleness, In the Bear's House celebrates Momaday's extraordinary creative vision and his evolution as one of our most gifted artists.

About N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 for his novel House Made of Dawn. He is also author of The Way to Rainy Mountain, Earth Keeper, The Death of Sitting Bear, and In the Bear's House, among many others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on February 21, 2009

I found this book mysterious and intriguing, especially the Bear-God dialogues. With the bear representing the spirit of the wilderness, as Momaday said in his introduction, it's kind of a conversation between creation and the Creator. With topics like dreams, story, thought, and time, the dialogue......more

Goodreads review by S. on October 01, 2009

Momaday is a Native American writer/poet who lives near me in the Jemez mountains. This volume contains a dialogue, "passages," and a collection of poems. The dialogue is between "Yahweh" or "Creator" and "Urset" or "Bear" (bear being the representation of wilderness). Strong themes of divinity and......more

Goodreads review by Josephine on March 04, 2018

This is my favorite of all the books by Momaday that I have read so far. The text is powerful as are the amazing drawings that accompany the text. I'd love to hear an audio or video version of this in Momaday's own voice, which is amazing (through interviews by Ken Burns in the PBS series The West).......more

Goodreads review by Lenora on April 04, 2021

Mr. Momaday and I share something in common, as he says in the Introduction, he “hungers for wild mountains and rivers and plains. I love to be on Bear’s ground, to listen for that old guttural music under his breath, to know only that he is near. And Bear is welcome in my dreams, for in that cave o......more

Goodreads review by Brian on May 25, 2024

An iconoclastic viewpoint of both worldly and Indigenous figures. We get N. Scott Momaday's vision of nature and experience. From the figure of Bear we discover the thread and life-force of various concepts ranging from writing to baseball. With passages culled from Momaday's travels as well as his......more