Smith, C. W
by Thin Men of Haddam
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0670700398
- ISBN 13
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New York. 1973. December 1973. Grossman. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket . 0670700398. 327 pages . hardcover. Jacket design by B. H. Armstrong. keywords: Literature America Texas. FROM THE PUBLISHER - MEndez: a chicano, a ranch foreman thanks to fortunate circumstance, intellectual, and ambitious for himself and his people. Manuelo: his unemployed cousin, desperate, angry, and bent on avenging the wrongs he has suffered. Bond: ranch hand, buffoon, tale-spinner, a former preacher whose congregation now is Mendez. Houston: a Chicagoan who hopes to rebuild his life on the ranch he has just inherited. Four men who dream of the sky but are bound to the earth, who have cast themselves in roles but do not control the script, around whom C. W. Smith has built his remarkable first novel, THIN MEN OF HADDAM. It is a rich and sweeping story, set in the Southwest, impregnated with regional humor and color, and distinguished by a sure sense of characterization and plotting. The novel is constructed of stories told by its characters and flashbacks involving MEndez, the protagonist, who struggles to reconcile his dreams with his hatred for the Anglos who alone can satisfy them, and to satisfy both his self-interest and his desire to be a martyr for his people. Its tension ever building, the novel moves inexorably to its climactic scene, a dead-of-night manhunt in the rugged, semi-arid hills of West Texas. Readers of THIN MEN OF HADDAM will find echoes of Faulkner and Cervantes, but Smith is his own man, a writer whose major talents are fully displayed in this big, stemwinding novel of extraordinary authority, wit, and dramatic power. inventory #25873 ISBN: 0670700398.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25873
- Title
- Smith, C. W
- Author
- Thin Men of Haddam
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670700398
- ISBN 13
- 9780670700394
- Publisher
- Grossman
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1973
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