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Rabbit Boss: Vintage Contemporaries

Autor Thomas Sanchez
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 1989
Acclaimed as an American classic, Thomas Sanchez's first book is a novel of dreams dying, the loss of power, the rebirth of the spirit. Brilliantly evoking the American West, Rabbit Boss tells the story of four generations of Washo in the Sierras of California and Nevada. This is a powerful and exalting narrative.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780679726210
ISBN-10: 0679726217
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Seria Vintage Contemporaries


Notă biografică

Thomas Sanchez lived for many years in Key West, Mallorca, and Paris, where the French Republic awarded him the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. He currently resides in Key West. He is the author of King Bongo, Mile Zero, Day of the Bees, Zoot-Suit Murders and Rabbit Boss, which was named by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the most important books of the twentieth century.

Recenzii

Rabbit Boss is a landmark work of twentieth-century American literature. A novel of dreams dying, the loss of power, the rebirth of the spirit, it is the most brilliant fictional evocation of the American West ever written. Powerful and exalting, Rabbit Boss tells the story of four generations of Washo in the California and Nevada Sierra.

"The Indian experience of the last 120 years...Rabbit Boss is of a size and scope that is awesome. Sanchez is a man of tremendous vision." -- Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

"Rabbit Boss deserves to become an American classic. A great novel, spanning a century in the life and death of an Indian tribe, told with epic perspective and infinite compassion."

-- National Observer

"Etched in unforgettable prose...Sanchez is to be congratulated."

-- Vine Deloria, Jr., author of Custer Died For Your Sins

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Rabbit Boss is a landmark work of twentieth-century American literature. A novel of dreams dying, the loss of power, the rebirth of the spirit, it is the most brilliant fictional evocation of the American West ever written. Powerful and exalting, Rabbit Boss tells the story of four generations of Washo in the California and Nevada Sierra.

Descriere

The legendary, epic novel tells the story of four generations of the Washo in Nevada and Eastern California--a story of dreams, dying, the loss of power, death and apotheosis.