What Are Deserts? by Lisa Trumbauer
In the space of one day, Jubal E. Gainer, high school dropout and draft dodger, manages to rack up an impressive array of crimes. . . . He steals a friend's motorcycle, rapes a simple-minded spinster, mugs a pixyish professor, and stabs an obese visionary who runs a surplus store. He then waits out an Indiana twister and goes his way, leaving as much wreckage in his path as the twister itself.--Library Journal. In Orbit is a short novel, full of action, and the seriousness can mostly be found between the lines. There] one can see against what Jubal Gainer's rebellion, thoughtless and aimless as it seems, is directed. One might say that he is, like millions of his contemporaries, a Huck Finn without a Mississippi.-- Granville Hicks, Saturday Review. Here is another of Wright Morris's craftsmanly novels--terse, colloquial, restrained, fragmented, deliberately shadowy. Above all, small; not slight, not inconsequential, but a miniature. . . . All readers will surely appreciate the quality of the prose style one has come to expect in a Wright Morris novel. . . . There is also a muscular quality to Mr. Morris's writing that makes it a suitable instrument for conveying harsher things; and there is his sense of the comic, which springs up constantly. In all, this is a quiet but rich performance.--New York Times Book Review. One of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris (1910-1988) wrote thirty-three books including The Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780736844567 |
| ISBN 10 | 0736844562 |
| Title | What Are Deserts? |
| Author | Lisa Trumbauer |
| Series | Earth Features |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Capstone Press |
| Year published | 2004-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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