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A Pause in the Desert - Couverture souple

La Farge, Oliver

 
9780865346772: A Pause in the Desert
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0865346771 ISBN 13 : 9780865346772
Editeur : Sunstone Press, 2009

Synopsis

Oliver La Farge covers many aspects of everyday life in these sixteen stories, which range from an old man facing death alone in the Mexican bush to some boys facing the responsibilities of life at St. Peter's school; from the science fiction world of computing machines to the world of gourmets; and from the violent death of a man off the Rhode Island coast to the quiet death of a marriage in New Mexico. The variety of stories in this wide-ranging collection are sure to fit the taste and mood and any reader interested in the human condition through the clear grace of La Farge's timeless writing.

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in 1901, Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge is ranked among the literary lions of American Southwestern letters. Since his death in 1963, his reputation has continued to grow and new honors have been added to his name. "Laughing Boy," a novel of Navajo life, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930, putting his name in lights before he was 30. His other books include "Behind the Mountains," "The Mother Ditch," "Raw Material," "The Man With the Calabash Pipe," "Cochise of Arizona," and "The Enemy Gods," all available from Sunstone Press.

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Éditeur
Sunstone Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0865346771
ISBN 13 
9780865346772
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
276
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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