The Milagro Beanfield War - Brossura

Nichols, John Treadwell

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0805063749 ISBN 13: 9780805063745

Casa editrice: Henry Holt & Co, 2000

Riassunto

Violence erupts in the poor town of Milagro when one poor dirt farmer impulsively taps the main irrigation channel. Reprint.

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L'autore:

John Nichols's New Mexico Trilogy, inaugurated in 1974 with the publication of The Milagro Beanfield War, has grown from regional stature to national appeal, from literary radicals to cult classics. Beloved for his compassionate, richly comic vision and admired for his insight into the cancer that accompanies unbridled progress, Nichols is the author of nine novels and six works of nonfiction. He lives in northern New Mexico.

Product Description:

Joe Mondragon, thirty-six with not much to show for it, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully, if impulsively (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel.And so began -- though few knew it at the time -- the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, ever so awkwardly, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, groped its way toward its own stubborn salvation.

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• Editore: Henry Holt & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0805063749
• ISBN 13: 9780805063745
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 456