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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen Harrigan , Nicholas LemannPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.653kg ISBN: 9781477320099ISBN 10: 1477320091 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 01 October 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword by Nicholas Lemann Part One: Music in the Desert Morning Light On the Edge The Secret Life of the Beach Going into the Desert Isla del Padre The Tiger Is God The Bay Swamp Thing The Silver Kings Part Two: Highways and Jungle Paths The Roof of Eden Feeling Flush The Anger of Achilles Rock and Sky The Little Man's Road My Igloo A Secret Door Part Three: The Shadow of History The Temple of Destiny The Man Nobody Knows Comanche Midnight Wolf House The Last Days of David Crockett Taking Care of Lonesome Dove His Fostering Hand The Eye of the Mammoth A Troublous Life Part Four: Where Is My Home? What Texas Means to Me The Soul of Treaty Oak Wish I Were There The Eyesore The Golden Age of Austin Texanic! Fade In, Fade Out Where Is My Home? Off Course AcknowledgmentsReviewsHarrigan has written beautifully about the various natural wonders of the state...Through it all, Harrigan writes with ease, with a straightforward, friendly thoughtfulness that lures you in and makes you wonder how someone can be so nice, so modest, so self-deprecating at times, when it's obvious that writing as concisely and clearly as he does is quite difficult. --The Austin American-Statesman (04/06/2013) Like sitting next to a loquacious, genial and informative passenger on a slow trans-Texas train. --Kirkus Reviews (04/01/2013) These essays speak with the same acuity and matchless prose that won Harrigan national acclaim in his best-selling novels The Gates of the Alamo (2000) and Remember Ben Clayton (2011); readers of Harrigan's fiction are sure to find this definitive collection of his nonfiction no less arresting. --Booklist (03/01/2013) These pieces convey a deep and rewarding connection with place. Reaching across the history of Texas, both natural and cultural, he creates a paradoxical effect--collapsing the sweeping distances of a vast and varied state while giving its immense particularly its due... Best of all, he has an uncanny knack for ending his essays in exactly the right place, more often than not carrying what would otherwise have been pleasant and serviceable to a stirring and unusually satisfying conclusion. -- (04/01/2013) Harrigan has written beautifully about the various natural wonders of the state...Through it all, Harrigan writes with ease, with a straightforward, friendly thoughtfulness that lures you in and makes you wonder how someone can be so nice, so modest, so self-deprecating at times, when it's obvious that writing as concisely and clearly as he does is quite difficult. * The Austin American-Statesman * These pieces convey a deep and rewarding connection with place. Reaching across the history of Texas, both natural and cultural, he creates a paradoxical effect-collapsing the sweeping distances of a vast and varied state while giving its immense particularly its due... Best of all, he has an uncanny knack for ending his essays in exactly the right place, more often than not carrying what would otherwise have been pleasant and serviceable to a stirring and unusually satisfying conclusion. * Publishers Weekly * These essays speak with the same acuity and matchless prose that won Harrigan national acclaim in his best-selling novels The Gates of the Alamo (2000) and Remember Ben Clayton (2011); readers of Harrigan's fiction are sure to find this definitive collection of his nonfiction no less arresting. * Booklist * Like sitting next to a loquacious, genial and informative passenger on a slow trans-Texas train. * Kirkus Reviews * Author InformationStephen Harrigan is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, among them the critically acclaimed and best-selling novel The Gates of the Alamo, and two previous collections of essays, A Natural State and Comanche Midnight. His most recent novel, Remember Ben Clayton, won the Jesse H. Jones award for best work of fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters and the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. He is a longtime writer for Texas Monthly, and has contributed articles and essays to a wide variety of other magazines. Harrigan is also an award-winning screenwriter who has written many movies for television. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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