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Cargando... California Bloodstock (1980)por Terry McDonell
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I am not avant-garde or modern enough in my tastes to enjoy this. My reaction? Sordid, smutty, depressing, drivel. Is there a story there? Yes. It is a retelling of the history of the making of California highlighting the feet of clay of those who made it. It focuses on every negative, nasty thing that could be thought of in the lives of the early settlers. That it mirrors some of the actual behaviors, I have no doubt. Does it tell the whole story? No, not at all. It seems to derive pleasure in sneering at the events, and yes, it is fiction, but historical enough that it includes major places and players, although not directly. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The brilliant debut novel by the acclaimed author of The Accidental Life "The twisted truth about where California came from . . . A rare, original piece of work." --Hunter S. Thompson California Bloodstock is a novel of exploding imagination, an epic comic saga of nineteenth-century California. A fifteen-year-old heroine seeks revenge and comes of age in the tradition of True Grit. Like a female Huckleberry Finn, her heart reflects the ironies of history--Manifest Destiny, indeed. Gold is discovered in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and a rag-tag republic is born out of a free-for-all landscape of blustering and doomed historical players--from John C. Freemont and Brigham Young to the Donner Party. The mythic "Animal People" gobble peyote, while boom-town San Francisco rollicks with the unhinged entrepreneurs selling fairy tale schemes to buckskin drifters and New York publishing scions. Even the legendary swordsman Zoro is here and at large, robbing stagecoaches in the idyllic grasslands that will all too soon become Silicon Valley. Read it and weep--with laughter as the so-called Golden State invents its future. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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