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First Horses
Stories of the New West
by Robert Franklin Gish
ISBN: 087417211X
ISBN-13: 9780874172119
Format: Paperback
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr
Published date: 1993
Size: 6 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Pages: 134
Publisher's Notes
Stories about "the West" are often associated with cattle drives, cowboy and Indian stand-offs, badmen in black hats, and rugged pioneers. First Horses: Stories of the New West is an original collection of fourteen short stories in which Robert F. Gish describes a multiethnic, contemporary West that encourages the reader to see beyond the stereotypes of the Old West. All of the stories depict the emotional and psychological costs of the prejudices and injustices of the Old West that have carried over into the twentieth-century New West. Gish's vivid storytelling technique utilizes compelling voices and gritty characters: the regulars at a small-town cafe; the local rodeo with its manly contests; the staged fiesta with its attempt to recreate traditions; a young stripper at a honky-tonk tavern; the classrooms and playgrounds of public schools with their mix of Anglo, Mexican American, and American Indian youths; and the fields where taboos of interracial romance evaporate into the cloudless blue sky and the churning, muddy irrigation waters of the Rio Grande. The unifying theme of these short stories is a subtle plea for harmony and mutual respect among the inhabitants and the landscapes. Violence, racism, sexism, and environmental pollution prove to be the remnants of earlier insensibilities, residues in need of recognition and disavowal. Many of these stories, told in varying voices of male and female, Anglo and Hispanic, young and old, trace this "recognition" along the turbulent paths of initiation as one generation learns about its own special concerns in the shared heritage of others. All fourteen stories in First Horses are set in the sometimes magical, sometimes brutal Southwest.Cutting through class and ethnicity, each story illustrates how a land and its history determine a people and are determined by them. Persons interested in the literature and history of the American West or in the New Ethnicity will enjoy the stories in First Horses.
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First Horses
Gish, Robert
Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada, 1993. Wraps show light warping along with light shelf rubbing.. Trade Paperback. Good +/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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First Horses: Stories of the New West
Gish, Robert Franklin
Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1993. A clean tight book. Feels unread. No spine creasing. No defects. A very nice copy. 134 pages.. ISBN: 0-87417-211-x. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by N/A. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fiction, Short Stories. ( more information)
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First Horses: Stories of the New West
Gish, Robert Franklin
Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.: Univ of Nevada Pr, 1993 USED - Standard. Book has only minor reading wear; binding is square and tight; text is clean and unmarked. BOOKSMART offers free domestic shipping (media mail) on orders of three or more books. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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First Horses - Stories Of The New West
Gish, Robert F
Reno NV: University Of Nevada Press, 1993. This gorgeous trade paperback is new, unread and not a remainder. The textblock is very clean, uncreased, square and carries no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. The covers are very clean, bright and carry no signs of having been transported, shelved or thumbed through.. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. New (Very Fine)/Not Issued With Dustjacket. ( more information)
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