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9780060161132 - Wier, Allen: A Place for Outlaws - A Novel
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Wier, Allen

A Place for Outlaws - A Novel (1989)

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika EN HC US SI

ISBN: 9780060161132 bzw. 0060161132, in Englisch, Harper & Row, Publishers, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, signiert.

Fr. 22.19 ($ 25.00)¹ + Versand: Fr. 17.75 ($ 20.00)¹ = Fr. 39.94 ($ 45.00)¹
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, John Marston's Book Shop.
NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust Jacket Design and Illustration By Wendell Minor; Book Design By Alma Orenstein. First printing of the Harper hardcover edition [full number line beginning the '1']. viii, 280pp. Navy blue quarter-cloth, orange paper boards, copper gilt spine lettering, dark orange endpapers, deckled fore-edge. Dust jacket price 18.95. Signed by author to half-title page. Book and dust jacket appear in fine, unread condition. No remainder markings. Allen Wier is a Texas-born author, winner of the 1979 Texas Institute of Letters Short Story award. His novels and stories explore historical and contemporary Texas and the Southwest. "Allen Wier is one of the finest novelists to emerge from the American Southwest, and yet his novels transcend regional boundaries in their reflection upon human loneliness, the improbability of real human connections, and the tenuousness of life itself. Evocative of the works of such masters as William Goyen and Katherine Anne Porter, Wier's novels depict realistic characters whose stories become melanges of memory, imagination, and event that question the very nature of reality, of past and future. Wier's fictional landscapes, inner and outer, are constructed with insight and craft. Certainly his novels, together with his short story collection 'Things about to Disappear', and his writings on contemporary fiction earn him a place among the finest of contemporary American writers." - Celia M. Kingsbury. Dust jacket praise by Fred Chappell; Beverly Lowry; Madison Smartt Bell; Wright Morris; George Garrett. " Allen Wier is a fiction writer of sensitive understanding and cunning force. 'A Place for Outlaws' begins as a family novel, as warmly evocative and intimate over time as an album of family photographs, and imperceptibly turns into a shocker, grounded in subterfuge, perversity, and violence. The overall movement brings good and evil face-to-face in an unexpected way to contend for the soul of a woman and then her son.The central figure, Julia Marrs, is a strong and quixotic woman fated to have two consuming loves - the first blessed, the second cursed, one grounded in the steadfastness of Julia's character, the other in its vulnerability. Despite the extremes of her experience with men and the apparent contradictions of her nature, Julia is always herself: a levelheaded, resolute girl and woman, but one in whose heart "There would always be...a place for outlaws - a place her mind could not rule." Julia's life is as coherent and surprising as her character. An orphan, she is raised by an austere grandmother on a little farm in Missouri; as an adolescent her life abruptly changes when she moves to Texas to live with her stylish, coquettish, pampered aunt Anna-belle. These counterinfluences continue to resonate in Julia's marriage to a maverick university student, Avery Marrs. With his feet on the ground and his head in the clouds (he insists that he's from Mars and plies Julia with Greek myths), Avery has a spirit as kindred to hers as human nature can provide. Eventually she loses him arid gamely tries to invent another life in Florida. There she soon comes under the spell of a very different kind of outlaw, and her destiny turns dark and dangerous. Meanwhile her son Cole grows up as an onlooker, watching Julia's happiness and grief and victimization. A college teacher with his own streak of riskiness, Cole is drawn into a relationship that resembles his mother's later one. Then, in a way unthinkable to both mother and son, the parallel lines of their lives converge in horror and violence.A 'Place for Outlaws' is a remarkably taut and resonant narrative, stretched across sixty years of a family's history and tightened by abrupt changes and dramas. Its voice is both firm and mellow, and the figure of Julia Marrs rises from its pages like a country melody - sweet and wild and indelible." - dust jacket flaps.
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9780060161132 - Allen Wier: A Place for Outlaws
Allen Wier

A Place for Outlaws

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika EN HC NW

ISBN: 9780060161132 bzw. 0060161132, in Englisch, HarperCollins Publishers, gebundenes Buch, neu.

Fr. 14.66 ($ 17.05)¹
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9780060161132 - Allen Wier: A Place for Outlaws
Allen Wier

A Place for Outlaws (1989)

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika EN HC NW FE

ISBN: 9780060161132 bzw. 0060161132, in Englisch, 279 Seiten, Harpercollins, gebundenes Buch, neu, Erstausgabe.

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9780060161132 - Allen Wier: A Place for Outlaws
Allen Wier

A Place for Outlaws (1989)

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika EN HC US FE

ISBN: 9780060161132 bzw. 0060161132, in Englisch, 279 Seiten, Harpercollins, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, Erstausgabe.

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9780060161132 - Allen Wier: A Place for Outlaws
Allen Wier

A Place for Outlaws (1989)

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika EN HC US FE

ISBN: 9780060161132 bzw. 0060161132, in Englisch, 279 Seiten, Harpercollins, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, Erstausgabe.

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