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Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Author's first book. Winner of the Texas Institute & Letters Award for 1974. "A realistic and sympathetic portrayal of a Mexican American ranch hand and life along the Texas-Mexico border. "; 1.3 x 8.3 x 5.6 Inches; 327 pages.
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1973. December 1973. Grossman. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670700398. 327 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by B. H. Armstrong. keywords: American Literature Texas. DESCRIPTION-Mendez: a chicano, a ranch foreman thanks to fortunate circumstance, intellectual, and ambitious for himself and his people. Manuelo: his unemployed cousin, desperate, angry, and bent on avenging the wrongs he has suffered. Bond: ranch hand, buffoon, tale-spinner, a former preacher whose congregation now is Mendez. Houston: a Chicagoan who hopes to rebuild his life on the ranch he has just inherited. Four men who dream of the sky but are bound to the earth, who have cast themselves in roles but do not control the script, around whom C. W. Smith has built his remarkable first novel, THIN MEN OF HADDAM. It is a rich and sweeping story, set in the Southwest, impregnated with regional humor and color, and distinguished by a sure sense of characterization and plotting. The novel is constructed of stories told by its characters and flashbacks involving Mendez, the protagonist, who struggles to reconcile his dreams with his hatred for the Anglos who alone can satisfy them, and to satisfy both his self-interest and his desire to be a martyr for his people. Its tension ever building, the novel moves inexorably to its climactic scene, a dead-of-night manhunt in the rugged, semi-arid hills of West Texas. Readers of THIN MEN OF HADDAM will find echoes of Faulkner and Cervantes, but Smith is his own man, a writer whose major talents are fully displayed in this big, stemwinding novel of extraordinary authority, wit, and dramatic power. inventory #31049.
