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Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails by Lawrence Block (2019, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDraft2digital

ISBN-101393063624

ISBN-139781393063629

eBay Product ID (ePID)17038830934

Product Key Features

Number of Pages260 Pages

Publication NameHunting Buffalo with Bent Nails

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

SubjectPersonal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues

TypeTextbook

AuthorLawrence Block

Subject AreaTravel, Biography & Autobiography

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight13.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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SynopsisWhile he is probably best known as a novelist and short-story writer, Lawrence Block has produced a rich trove of nonfiction over the course of a sixty-year career. His instructional books for writers are leaders in the field, and his self-described pedestrian memoir, Step By Step, has found a loyal audience in the running and racewalking community. Over the years, Block has written extensively for magazines and periodicals. Generally Speaking collects his philatelic columns from Linn's Stamp News, while his extensive observations of crime fiction, along with personal glimpses of some of its foremost practitioners, have won wide acclaim in book form as The Crime of Our Lives. Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails is what he's got left over. The title piece, originally published in American Heritage, recounts the ongoing adventure Block and his wife undertook, criss-crossing the United States and parts of Canada in their quixotic and exotic quest to find every "village, hamlet, and wide place in the road named Buffalo." Other travel tales share space with a remembrance of his mother, odes to New York, a disquisition on pen names and book tours, and, well, no end of bent nails not worth straightening. Where else will you find "Raymond Chandler and the Brasher Doubloon," an assessment of that compelling writer from a numismatic standpoint? Where else can you read about Block's collection of old subway cars? Highly recommended.