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PAINTED HORSES. A Novel
by Brooks, Malcolm
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- A nearly fine copy with one tiny nudge to top front corner in a fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0802121640
- ISBN 13
- 9780802121646
- Seller
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Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. A nearly fine copy with one tiny nudge to top front corner in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed on the title page and dated in the year of publication. The author' debut novel. In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of love and fate, and of heritage threatened by progress. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana with a huge task before her--a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove that nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar--the vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there's John H, a former mustanger and veteran of the US Army's last mounted cavalry campaign, living a fugitive life in the canyon. John H inspires Catherine to see beauty in the stark landscape, and her heart opens to more than just the vanished past.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ed Smith Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15278
- Title
- PAINTED HORSES. A Novel
- Author
- Brooks, Malcolm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - A nearly fine copy with one tiny nudge to top front corner in a fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0802121640
- ISBN 13
- 9780802121646
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- first book, fiction, the American West, vanishing way of life, love story, western novel,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ed Smith Books
Biblio member since 2009
Bainbridge Island, Washington
About Ed Smith Books
Ed Smith Books specializes in better condition modern literary first editions, signed books, photographic monographs, screen and theater related material and pop culture. We offer appraisals for books and photographs. We are located a short ferry ride from downtown Seattle, WA on Bainbridge Island. Since 1985 (ABAA since 1995). Two authors we specialize in are Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson. Open by appointment.
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- Fine
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