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- Title
- Magpie Rising: Sketches from T
- Author
- Gilfillan, Merrill
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679730389
- ISBN 13
- 9780679730385
Essays deal with a Kansas farm town, Billy the Kid's stolen tombstone, the cosmology of the Pawnee Indians, the behavior of prairie chickens, and modern life on the Great Plains
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Poet Gilfillan explored the Great Plains and writes an impressionistic account of the region's landscape and history that is comparable to Edward Abbey's and Gary Nabhan's celebrations of the desert West. This 1989 winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction "will have immense local interest and may kindle a desire among Western buffs to explore the Great Plains," said PW. (Apr.) penny: au name misspelled in orig PW review, acc to catalog & galley
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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