Elkhorn Tavern - Couverture souple

Jones, Douglas C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0451231856 ISBN 13 : 9780451231857

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2010

Synopsis

“Elkhorn Tavern has the beauty of Shane and the elegiac dignity of Red River without the false glamour or sentimentality of those classic Western films... Mr. Jones is at home among the ridges and hardwoods of a frontier valley... He holds us still and compels us to notice what we live in.”—The New York Times Book Review

From Douglas C. Jones, an author the Los Angeles Times called "a superb storyteller and authentic chronicler of the American West," comes a classic Civil War novel, long out of print but considered one of the great titles of the genre.

With her husband gone east to fight for the Confederate Army, Ora Hasford is left alone to tend to her Arkansas farm and protect her two teenage children, Calpurnia and Roman. But only a short distance away, in the shadow of Pea Ridge, a storm is gathering. In a clash to decide control over the western front, two opposing armies prepare for a brutal, inevitable battle. Beset by soldiers, bushwhackers, and jayhawkers, the Hasfords' home stands unprotected in what will soon be one of the worst battlegrounds in the West.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Douglas C. Jones was a three-time winner of the Western Writers of America's Golden Spur Award, as well as the recipient of their Owen Wister Award of Lifetime Achievement. A native of Arkansas, Jones died in 1998.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0451231856
• ISBN 13: 9780451231857
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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