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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Type
- Short Stories
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- ISBN
- 9781477320099
- Book Title
- Eye of the Mammoth : New and Selected Essays
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Item Length
- 8.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Literary Collections, History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), American / General, Essays
- Item Weight
- 23.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 424 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
1477320091
ISBN-13
9781477320099
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038387887
Product Key Features
Book Title
Eye of the Mammoth : New and Selected Essays
Number of Pages
424 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), American / General, Essays
Genre
Literary Collections, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
23.8 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-016074
TitleLeading
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Reviews
These pieces convey a deep and rewarding connection with place. Reaching across the history of Texas, both natural and cultural, he creates a paradoxical effect--collapsing the sweeping distances of a vast and varied state while giving its immense particularly its due... Best of all, he has an uncanny knack for ending his essays in exactly the right place, more often than not carrying what would otherwise have been pleasant and serviceable to a stirring and unusually satisfying conclusion., Harrigan has written beautifully about the various natural wonders of the state...Through it all, Harrigan writes with ease, with a straightforward, friendly thoughtfulness that lures you in and makes you wonder how someone can be so nice, so modest, so self-deprecating at times, when it's obvious that writing as concisely and clearly as he does is quite difficult., These essays speak with the same acuity and matchless prose that won Harrigan national acclaim in his best-selling novels The Gates of the Alamo (2000) and Remember Ben Clayton (2011); readers of Harrigan's fiction are sure to find this definitive collection of his nonfiction no less arresting.
Table Of Content
Foreword by Nicholas Lemann Part One: Music in the Desert Morning Light On the Edge The Secret Life of the Beach Going into the Desert Isla del Padre "The Tiger Is God" The Bay Swamp Thing The Silver Kings Part Two: Highways and Jungle Paths The Roof of Eden Feeling Flush The Anger of Achilles Rock and Sky The Little Man's Road My Igloo A Secret Door Part Three: The Shadow of History The Temple of Destiny The Man Nobody Knows Comanche Midnight Wolf House The Last Days of David Crockett Taking Care of Lonesome Dove His Fostering Hand The Eye of the Mammoth A Troublous Life Part Four: Where Is My Home? What Texas Means to Me The Soul of Treaty Oak Wish I Were There The Eyesore The Golden Age of Austin Texanic! Fade In, Fade Out Where Is My Home? Off Course Acknowledgments
Synopsis
History--natural history, human history, and personal history--and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth . Stephen Harrigan's career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ancestors' village in the Czech Republic. And now, in this new edition, he movingly recounts in "Off Course" a quest to learn all he can about his father, who died in a plane crash six months before he was born. Harrigan's deceptively straightforward voice belies an intense curiosity about things that, by his own admission, may be "unknowable." Certainly, we are limited in what we can know about the inner life of George Washington, the last days of Davy Crockett, the motives of a caged tiger, or a father we never met, but Harrigan's gift--a gift that has also made him an award-winning novelist--is to bring readers closer to such things, to make them less remote, just as a cave painting in the title essay eerily transmits the living stare of a long-extinct mammoth., By the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling novels The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton, here is the definitive, career-spanning collection of nonfiction from one of America?s leading writers, Stephen Harrigan.
LC Classification Number
PS3558.A626E94 2019
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