Isbn: 9780771098505 - tay john (11 risultati)

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Condizione: Very Good. The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his own truths. This richly populated novel vividly depicts the exotic and rootless people who wound their way to the Canadian Northwest. It is a powerful modern legend that ranges over all aspects of the human heart and mind, incorporating passion and hatred, tragedy and triumph.…

Condizione: Good. The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his own truths. This richly populated novel vividly depicts the exotic and rootless people who wound their way to the Canadian Northwest. It is a powerful modern legend that ranges over all aspects of the human heart and mind, incorporating passion and hatred, tragedy and triumph.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. Edgeworn, with creasing, bumping, and tearing at corners. Copyright 1960, 1974 by Howard O'Hagan; Afterword copyright 1989 by Michael Ondaatje.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good +. In the Afterword to these 272 pages, Michael Ondaatje, calls O'Hagan's important telling of this tale of the early west - mythic realism. He sets the table for Kroetsch et al. Read more about : white man, whisky smugglers, pack-horse, Tzalas, Tatlow, Swamas, Robson's Peak, Mr. Dobble, and Red Rorty. The year is 1880 and the place is the area of the Yellowhead Pass. (Or Tete Jaune, if you prefer.) UNillustrated. Cond : Paper wrapper is off-white with black lettering. Mountain graphic on cover helps one imagine the Athabaska Valley. Colours bright, binding tight. Name of p/o on first page. Light general wear. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 35) : " When the people had mourned over her for three days, on the fourth day rhey took her body, wrapped in burial clothes of cedar bark and goat's-wool, and buried it in the soft earth at the foot of a slide. They left food by ._._._. . " Size: 12mo. John William Beatty (cover) (illustratore). …