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The Milagro Beanfield War
- A Novel
Engelsk Paperback
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- A Novel
Engelsk Paperback

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The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols''s New Mexico trilogy (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” —The New York Times Book Review), later adapted to film by Robert Redford.

Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe''s beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes.

The tale of Milagro''s rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
464
ISBN-13:
9780805063745
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
1
ISBN-10:
0805063749
Udg. Dato:
15 feb 2000
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
210mm
Højde:
139mm
Forlag:
Henry Holt and Co.
Oplagsdato:
15 feb 2000
Forfatter(e):
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