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A winner of the Colorado Fiction Award tells the story of a man who makes a living fishing dead bodies from the river, struggles to support his alcoholic father, and pursues a relationship with a mysterious woman. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Hilmer's first novel focuses on a river rescue crew in the Sierra Nevadas.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0684813866I4N00
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The Hookmen
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Scribner Paperback Fiction, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0684813866
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The Hookmen
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Seller: All About Authors, Englewood, CO, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not Stated. New York: Scribner's,Simon & Schuster 1996. Trade paperback - first thus. The author's first novel, a portrait of a young man coming to terms with the natural forces around him, in the high mountain canyons of California's Kern River. The 'hookmen' are those who search rivers for the drowned. Winner of the Colorado Fiction Award. Near fine. ISBN: 0684813866. Seller Inventory # 006685
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edtion, 1st Printing. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Recipient of the Colorado Fiction Award among other honors. Debut novel centering around river rescue crew ("hookmen") of the Forest Service along Southern California's rugged Kern River. Story of 19 year-old Roy Cruz's initiation into the grim profession of retrieving the drowned from their watery graves with metal hooks, a job young Cruz takes on to make ends meet while minding his alcoholic father. Cruz, his instructor Crawdad, and a former friend of Crawdad by the name of Walker ride down the treacherous upper Kern . Descriptions of the dynamics between the three men, the rapids and the rescues are excellent, as is the portrait of Cruz's ailing father. Seller Inventory # 008951
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 244 pages. cover worn, Not since James Dickey's classic Deliverance has there been a novel that succeed s in capturing the violent and beautiful world of the river and those who dare t o travel down its turbulent waters. The Hookmen, winner of the 1993 Colorado Fic tion Award, is a haunting adventure set against the backdrop of the rugged Kern River in southern California. It is the story of nineteen-year-old Roy Cruz, who struggles to care for his alcoholic father, and the summer he takes a dangerous job with the Forest Service to make ends meet. Taught by old Crawdad, Cruz beco mes a hookman and learns the grim craft of searching for the drowned, then dra gging them from their watery grave with metal hooks. He falls in love with Rita, a tough woman with a mysterious past, and befriends Walker, a masterful kayaker and burned-out Vietnam vet, whose presence will eventually threaten to destroy everything Cruz has ever loved or trusted. More than anything, The Hookmen is a novel of survival. As Cruz attempts to navigate the treacherous rapids in the hi gh mountain canyons of the Kern, he also tries to salvage his own doomed relatio nship with his father and his love affair with Rita. Seller Inventory # 5993d
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Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Seller Inventory # Q-0684813866