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- Publication Date
- 2016-10-10
- Pages
- 376
- ISBN
- 022641261X
- Book Title
- Bad Lands : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Westerns, Historical
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 19.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 376 Pages
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Oakley Hall (1920-2008) was considered a great novelist of the American West, and as an inspiring writing teacher whose students include Amy Tan, Michael Chabon, and Richard Ford. The Bad Lands (Atheneum, 1978) is set in1883 in the Dakota Territory. It describes the closing of the open lands there, the end of the "Beef Bonanza," and conflicts among ranchers. It blends action-packed western tropes (cattle round-ups, rustlers, the threat of hangings, much shooting, and a whore house) with an elegy to the wild beauty of the Bad Lands before cattle ranchers chased off the Native Americans and fenced it in.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022641261x
ISBN-13
9780226412610
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038279269
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bad Lands : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Westerns, Historical
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3558.A373b33 2015
Reviews
A tale of tragic justice, of nightriders, of horse thieves fighting cattle thieves--the clearest call yet from the sensitive, slicing voice that rang through the west in Warlock ., Readers unable to suppress an unfashionable yearning for a good story will be delighted with The Bad Lands . . . . The cast of whores, gunhands, buffalo hunters, and grizzled settlers is effectively put into play. . . . Hall has thrust his imagination into that time and that place, and has written quite a good book., Long on plot and action, The Bad Lands is a solid, satisfying story. . . . As full of motion and as picturesque as a Remington bronze., The Ox-Bow Incident , Shane , The Big Sky , Hall's own Warlock . . . . The Bad Lands belongs with this select group., An elegiac, incandescent 1880s Dakota badlands Western that bears comparison to the greats ( Shane , Ox-Bow Incident ) that it recalls. . . . A tale of tragic justice, of nightriders, of horse thieves fighting cattle thieves--the clearest call yet from the sensitive, slicing voice that rang through the west in Warlock ., We are a nation that can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot, and drive away; and we need voices like Hall's to remind us how far that piece of paper, still fluttering brightly behind us, has to fall.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Abbreviations Preface 1. Classical Archaeology: The "Handmaid of History"? The Rediscovery of the Past The Opening Up of Greece Philological Archaeology The Birth of Prehistory Theory Wars 2. Delphic Vapours The Triumph of Science? The Delphic Oracle The Geology of the Site Inspired Mantic or Fraudulent Puppet? Conclusion Documents for Chapter 2 3. The Persian Destruction of Eretria A Tale of Two Temples Yet Another Temple? Unmooring "Fixed Points" Science to the Rescue? Conclusion Documents for Chapter 3 4. Eleusis, the Oath of Plataia, and the Peace of Kallias The Archaios Neos at Eleusis The Oath of Plataia The Peace of Kallias Restoring the Sanctuaries of Attica Conclusion Documents for Chapter 4 5. Sokrates in the Athenian Agora The House of Simon The State Prison Sokrates on Death Row Conclusion Documents for Chapter 5 6. The Tombs at Vergina The Discovery of the Tombs The Political Dimension Aigeai and Vergina The Occupants of Tomb II The Tomb and Its Contents A Third Possibility Conclusion Documents for Chapter 6 7. The City of Romulus Untangling the Foundation Myths of Rome Romulus and Remus The Early Kings Materialized? State Formation and Urbanization Conclusion Documents for Chapter 7 8. The Birth of the Roman Republic The Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus The Fall of a Tyrant The Nature of the Kingship The Origins of the Consulship "Etruscan" Rome Conclusion Documents for Chapter 8 9. Imperial Austerity: The House of Augustus The House Unearthed From Dux to Princeps Reconciling the Evidence Conclusion Documents for Chapter 9 10. The Bones of St. Peter The Discovery of the Tomb Beneath St. Peter's Peter in Rome Peter on the Appian Way Peter in Jerusalem Conclusion Postscript: The Tomb of St. Philip Documents for Chapter 10 11. Conclusion: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian Navigating between Textual and Material Evidence Words and Things Bridging the "Great Divide"? List of Ancient Authors Glossary Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2016-007479
Illustrated
Yes
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