The Way to Rainy Mountain
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3.6 • 75 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies.
"The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the nature of story. And this is particularly true of the oral tradition, which exists in a dimension of timelessness. I was first told these stories by my father when I was a child. I do not know how long they had existed before I heard them. They seem to proceed from a place of origin as old as the earth.
"The stories in The Way to Rainy Mountain are told in three voices. The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, my own voice. There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself."--from the new Preface
Customer Reviews
The Effectiveness of Storytelling
The Way to Rainy Mountain is a beautiful exposure into the Kiowa people and their traditions, as well as a solemn and reverent peek into the lives of those who have lived in the area.
It is a great piece to read in order to give you perspective on a culture and people that have been lost to time. I would recommend this book to anyone.
Lovely
A beautiful book worth reading. I suspect the lone negative review was a “bot?”
Excellent reading
I enjoyed this book very much. This is not a novel that tells a contiguous story from start to end. It is more conversational as person might speak who was passing on a history in oral form. At times I wish I could transport back in time to experience life before it became complex.