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Badlands
by Melinda Camber Porter
ISBN: 0863161499
ISBN-13: 9780863161490
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
A New York lawyer comes to an Indian reservation in South Dakota, accompanied by his restless girlfriend, to represent a charismatic Sioux named Harry Blackfoot in his lawsuit against a couple who have taken over an Indian hunting ground.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Writers & Readers
Published date: 1996
Size: 6.25 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.3 pounds
Pages: 248
Publisher's Notes
Badlands is set in the forgotten soul of America, in the awe-inspiring landscape of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. To the cosmopolitan New York lawyer Adam, and his British lover, the lives of the Sioux are dark reminders of the massacre at Wounded Knee. Adam returns regularly to the Badlands, determined to make amends for America's past and "get back the land" for his friend, the charismatic young leader, Blackfoot. But politics and ideology give way to a more desperate underlying quest; the need to give and to get love. When Adam is obliged to return to New York, his lover does not want to accompany him: instead she plunges into life on the reservation, as if rediscovering her true home. The Badlands become her gateway into her true self. Enmeshed in desire and in need, with Blackfoot and his willful, adolescent daughter, Minnie, she finds herself awakening to new and infinite vistas of her own sexuality and deep running passions. As she takes the young girl under her wing and enters Blackfoot's world, an intoxicating love emerges between them that transcends politics and destiny.
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Badlands
Porter, Melinda C
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Writers & Readers Publishing, Incorporated, 1996. This book is very nice. The dust jacket is price clipped. Badlands is set in the forgotten soul of America, in the awe- inspiring landscape of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. To the cosmopolitan New York lawyer Adam, and his British lover, the lives of the Sioux are dark reminders of the massacre at Wounded Knee, but when Adam's lover stays behind, she finds a new life with a new love.. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Badlands
Porter, Melinda Camber
Writers & Readers Publishing. Hardcover. 0863161499 HARDBACK - ** NEW - GIFT QUALITY**. We gladly accept APO/FPO Orders. Shipping within 24 hrs from IA with domestic delivery confirmation. Satisfaction guaranteed. . New. ( more information)
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Porter, Melinda Camber
Writers & Readers Publishing. Hardcover. 0863161499 A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. 1996 Writers & Readers Publishing Hard Cover . Very Good. 1996. ( more information)
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Porter, Melinda Camber
Writers & Readers Publishing. Hardcover. 0863161499 A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. 1996 Writers & Readers Publishing Hard Cover . Very Good. 1996. ( more information)
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Badlands
Melinda Camber Porter
Writers & Readers Publishing. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! ( more information)
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Badlands
Porter, Melinda Carter
New York: Writers And Readers, 1996. Advance Reading Copy. Edgewear and front corner turned. Small stain on front wrap.. Advance Reading Copy/Uncorrected Proof. Perfect Bound Paper. Very Good -/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Trade Paperback. ( more information)
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Badlands
Melinda Camber Porter
Writers & Readers Publishing, 01 April, 1996. Hardcover. Good/GOOD. ( more information)
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Badlands
Porter, Melnda Camber
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Writers & Readers, 1996 with dust jacket, retired library book, might contain general library markings. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. Ex-Library. ( more information)
Offered by Midwest Book Company (United States)
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Badlands [Hardcover] by Porter, Melinda Camber
Melinda Camber Porter
Writers & Readers Publishing, 1996-04. 1st ed,#rd 1st print. Hardcover W/DJ. Very Good/HB W/DJ. Hardback w/dj,lst ed,#rd lst print, Writers,Readers Pub,CR 1996 Melinda Camber Porter,nice clean copy,appears unread,unused,no marks,tears,stains, ( more information)
Offered by Cheyenne Moon Market (United States)
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Badlands
Porter, Melinda Camber
Writers and Readers, 1996. Pages are clean and binding is tight. ISBN: 0863161499. Hard Cover. Mildly Edgeworn/Mildly Edgeworn Dust Jacket. English Literature. American West.. ( more information)
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Badlands
Porter, Melinda Camber
NY: Writers & Readers, 1996. First edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine in Fine DJ. Novel of couple drawn into Sioux culture in South Dakota. Light shelfwear at bottom board edge, else fine/fine. ( more information)
Offered by Old Algonquin Books (United States)
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Badlands
Porter, Melinda Camber
Writers and Readers Publishing, 1996. Hardback 1st Printing Fine in Fine dust jacket. Novel of a cosmopolitan British woman who plunges herself into the life of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Crisp and unread condition. ISBN: 0863161499 ( more information)
Offered by Century Books (United States)
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Badlands (SIGNED)
Porter, Melinda C
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Writers & Readers Publishing, Incorporated, 1996. WARMLY INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Ms. Poter. Hardcover. This is a very clean, fresh and nice first printing. An increasingly uncommon first edition in collector's condition. Unclipped. The Dakota Badlands Porter so powerfully conjures is a place where wounds don't heal. Its haunting pain and sorrow is as evident in the despair of Indian reservations as it is in the harshly wrinkled earth itself. The presence of the dead is palpable, and it is their voices that call the poignant characters of this lyrical, unsettling drama to action. Adam, a New York lawyer, has come to the Badlands to help the magnetic, complex Henry Blackfoot protect the threatened burial sites of his Sioux ancestors. Adam's English lover narrates, and she is an arrestingly poetic observer who is transformed by her experiences in this most American of settings. Blunt yet sensitive, she struggles to understand the spirit of the Badlands and her conflicting feelings for Adam, Blackfoot, and Blackfoot's children. Porter's lambent prose offers crystalline insights into how the personal subsumes the political, why love is an act of modulation, how desire can be chic and despair a comfort, and how the past is inescapable. A deeply affecting story of revelation and its repercussions.. ISBN: 0863161499. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. SOUTH DAKOTA FICTION GENERAL. ( more information)
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Badlands
Porter, Melinda Camber
Writers and Readers First Edition 1996. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Badlands is set in the forgotten soul of America, in the awe-inspiring landscape of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. ( more information)
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Badlands [SIGNED]
Porter, Melinda Camber
Writers & Readers, 1996 9" x 6", 248 pp, copy is unread and is in MINT condition, INSCRIPTION SIGNED by Porter on the endpaper, scarce signed.. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. ( more information)
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