Murders at Moon Dance

A B Guthrie Jr

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Edité par University of Nebraska Press, 1993

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At a difficult and sad time in his family life, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., turned for surcease to reading western and whodunit novels. In his autobiography, The Blue Hen's Chick (also a Bison Book), he touches on that moment when he realized he could write as well as or better than the published plot-spinners. What about a mystery and cow-country myth in combination? he mused, So far as I could recall, the two had never been blended. All right. I'd blend them. The result was his first novel, Murders at Moon Dance, appearing in 1943. It was an audacious debut with bold characterizations and a sharply etched, atmospheric setting The dusty town of Moon Dance, smacked down between barren mountains and a badland named the Freezeout, would also be a back-drop for The Big It and Other Stories (1960). In Guthrie's hand, raw vitality replaces the woodenness of much writing in the genre, and unexpected grace notes in the verbal rhythms suggest the author of The Big Sky (1947) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Way West (1949). Introducing Murders at Moon Dance is the celebrated Montana writer William Kittredge, the author of such books as We Are Not in This Together (1984), Owning It All (1990), and Hole in the Sly (1992).…

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Titre
Murders at Moon Dance
Auteur
A B Guthrie Jr
Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Année de publication
1993
État de l'article
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0803270399
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780803270398

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