Blogs in January 1970

Sometimes a Great Notion 1st January 1970

The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Sailor Song” is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan. A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber...

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Gardenias 1st January 1970

The novel begins in 1942, when nine-year-old Lark and her newly separated mother and aunt Betty travel by train from southern Minnesota to San Diego. Eager to obtain war work and as much distance as possible from her estranged...

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And the Mountains Echoed 1st January 1970

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one… Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of...

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Ordinary Wolves 1st January 1970

In the tradition of Jack London, Seth Kantner presents an Alaska far removed from majestic clichis of exotic travelogues and picture postcards. Kantner’s vivid and poetic prose lets readers experience Cutuk Hawcly’s life on the Alaskan plains through the...

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The Devil’s Highway 1st January 1970

Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil’s Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds.

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