The Tom-Walker Tapa blanda - 1984

University of Nebraska Press, 1984. Very Good. Sandoz, Mari. The Tom-Walker. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. 372pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with very light bumping.

University of Nebraska Press, 1984. Fine. Sandoz, Mari. The Tom-Walker. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. 372pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine.

First Bison Books paperback printing. Tight binding; clean, unmarked pages.

new pb

University of Nebraska Press. New. BRAND NEW, GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER!

Paperback / softback. New. A hold, biting novel by the author of Old Jules and Crazy Horse, The Tom-Walker spans three generations in a Midwestern family. The patriarch, Milt Stone, who lost a leg fighting in Grant's army, is the Tom-Walker, circus slang for man on stilts. After the Civil War he takes his family west to the Missouri country. There he gains a reputation as a raconteur and as a passionate defender of the little man who works hard, fights the wars, and gets squeezed out by powerful interests. He lives to see his son and grandson fight in World War I and World War II, respectively, and return home from those wars, maimed like him, only to have to resume a fight just to stay alive. Crowded with living characters, The Tom-Walker never loses the larger view of American history. From the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age, everybody is "trying to be either a Jay Gould or a Jesse James, out for easy money, everybody [is] wanting to be king of something: mines, railroads, cattle,… Leer más

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

BISON BOOKS, 1984-08-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!