Bisbee '17 Paperback Robert Houston

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Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
Publication Name
University of Arizona Press
ISBN
9780816519392
Book Title
Bisbee '17
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Item Length
8.5 in
Edition
3
Publication Year
1999
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Robert Houston
Genre
Fiction
Topic
General, Literary, Historical
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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Publisher
University of Arizona Press
ISBN-10
0816519390
ISBN-13
9780816519392
eBay Product ID (ePID)
804568

Product Key Features

Edition
3
Book Title
Bisbee '17
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
General, Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Author
Robert Houston
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-042406
Dewey Edition
19
Reviews
"Mr. Houston disclaims scrupulous historical accuracy. But the essence of the scenario--the 'deportation'--is an ugly fact, and he brings it excitingly to life."-- New York Times Book Review "Houston's prose as he details these events is graphic and fluid. The story he tells, blending factual participants with fictional characters, is an example of history in fiction at its best."-- Arizona Daily Star "[A] highly charged, absorbing novel . . . Houston uses his literary skills to maximum advantage to create a masterful, moving and intensely involving account of a chilling, ugly chapter in American and Arizona history."-- Santa Cruz Valley Sun "A vivid, carefully imagined reconstruction of what the times were like for ordinary Arizonans in the age of labor agitation and big-mining power."-- Tucson Weekly, "Mr. Houston disclaims scrupulous historical accuracy. But the essence of the scenario—the 'deportation'—is an ugly fact, and he brings it excitingly to life." — New York Times Book Review "Houston's prose as he details these events is graphic and fluid. The story he tells, blending factual participants with fictional characters, is an example of history in fiction at its best." — Arizona Daily Star "[A] highly charged, absorbing novel . . . Houston uses his literary skills to maximum advantage to create a masterful, moving and intensely involving account of a chilling, ugly chapter in American and Arizona history." — Santa Cruz Valley Sun "A vivid, carefully imagined reconstruction of what the times were like for ordinary Arizonans in the age of labor agitation and big-mining power." — Tucson Weekly, "Mr. Houston disclaims scrupulous historical accuracy. But the essence of the scenario--the 'deportation'--is an ugly fact, and he brings it excitingly to life." -- New York Times Book Review "Houston's prose as he details these events is graphic and fluid. The story he tells, blending factual participants with fictional characters, is an example of history in fiction at its best." -- Arizona Daily Star "[A] highly charged, absorbing novel . . . Houston uses his literary skills to maximum advantage to create a masterful, moving and intensely involving account of a chilling, ugly chapter in American and Arizona history." -- Santa Cruz Valley Sun "A vivid, carefully imagined reconstruction of what the times were like for ordinary Arizonans in the age of labor agitation and big-mining power." -- Tucson Weekly, "Mr. Houston disclaims scrupulous historical accuracy. But the essence of the scenario-the 'deportation'-is an ugly fact, and he brings it excitingly to life." - New York Times Book Review "Houston's prose as he details these events is graphic and fluid. The story he tells, blending factual participants with fictional characters, is an example of history in fiction at its best." - Arizona Daily Star "[A highly charged, absorbing novel . . . Houston uses his literary skills to maximum advantage to create a masterful, moving and intensely involving account of a chilling, ugly chapter in American and Arizona history." - Santa Cruz Valley Sun "A vivid, carefully imagined reconstruction of what the times were like for ordinary Arizonans in the age of labor agitation and big-mining power." - Tucson Weekly
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Bisbee, Arizona, queen of the western copper camps, 1917. The protagonists in a bitter strike: the Wobblies (the IWW), the toughest union in the history of the West; and Harry Wheeler, the last of the two-gun sheriffs. In this class-war western, they face each other down in the streets of Bisbee, pitting a general strike against ..., Bisbee, Arizona, queen of the western copper camps, 1917. The protagonists in a bitter strike: the Wobblies (the IWW), the toughest union in the history of the West; and Harry Wheeler, the last of the two-gun sheriffs. In this class-war western, they face each other down in the streets of Bisbee, pitting a general strike against the largest posse ever assembled. Based on a true story, Bisbee '17 vividly re-creates a West of miners and copper magnates, bindlestiffs and scissorbills, army officers, private detectives, and determined revolutionaries. Against this backdrop runs the story of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, strike organizer from the East, caught between the worlds of her ex-husband--the Bisbee strike leader--and her new lover, an Italian anarchist from New York. As the tumultuous weeks of the strike unfold, she struggles to sort out what she really feels about both of them, and about the West itself.
LC Classification Number
PS3558.O873B57 1999

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