Descripción de contraportada
In this classic Depression-era Texas novel, three wayfaring comrades ask for no pity as they travel the country looking for signs from the "Higher Powers" - and for whiskey and women. As Eddie, the narrator, muses "the Higher Powers had meant us to live like wild free studhorses roaming the face of the earth and gladdening whatever hearts we run across". Finding their way to a camp under a Brazos River bridge, Eddie, Mike and Jimmy survive on windfalls they find, con, or take outright. Their ribald adventures sparkle with humorous philosophy and wry social satire. One can "scarcely find a book that is more politically incorrect than Walls Rise Up", writes Judyth Rigler in the foreword, "yet the reader . . . finds it easy to laugh at descriptions of shiftless hoboes, alcoholics, loose women, dimwitted giants, liars, thieves and the like". First published in 1939 by Doubleday Doran, this reprint includes a little known, previously unpublished chapter that Perry had intended for a future edition.
Detalles
- Título Walls Rise Up
- Autor George Sessions Perry
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición [ Edition: Repri
- Páginas 154
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Texas Christian University Press
- Fecha de publicación 1994-04
- ISBN 9780875651262 / 0875651267
- Peso 0.86 libras (0.39 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.53 x 5.79 x 0.78 pulgadas (21.67 x 14.71 x 1.98 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 93037785
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Library Journal, 05/01/1994, Page 143
- Publishers Weekly, 03/28/1994, Page 84
Más ejemplares
WALLS RISE UP (Texas Tradition (Hardcover))
de Perry, George Sessions
- Nuevo
- Estado
- New
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780875651262 / 0875651267
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Librería
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Precio
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EUR 29.72Envío gratuito a USA