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Download or read book Robert Laxalt written by David Río and published by Center for Basque Studies Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a study of the life and work of Basque American author Robert Laxalt. This book analyzes the representation of the Basques throughout Laxalt's varied literary production, with special attention to the different themes, characters, motives, and settings present in fifteen of his novels.
Download or read book Robert Laxalt written by Warren Lerude and published by Center for Basque Studies Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the Nevada writer Robert Laxalt that focuses on his writing career from journalist to acclaimed author, founder of the University of Nevada Press, and educator.
Book Synopsis The Land of My Fathers by : Robert Laxalt
Download or read book The Land of My Fathers written by Robert Laxalt and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees. The son of Basque emigrants, Laxalt wanted to learn as much as he could about the ancient and mysterious people from which he was descended and about the country from which his parents came. Thanks to his Basque surname and a wide network of family connections, Laxalt was able to penetrate the traditional reserve of the Basques in a way that outsiders rarely can. In the process, he gained rare insight into the nature of the Basques and the isolated, beautiful mountain world where they have lived for uncounted centuries. Based on Laxalt’s personal journals of this and a later sojourn in 1965, The Land of My Fathers is a moving record of a people and their homeland. Through Laxalt’s perceptive eyes and his wife Joyce’s photographs, we observe the Basques’ market days and festivals, join their dove hunts and harvests, share their humor and history, their deep sense of nationalism, their abiding pride in their culture and their homes, and discover the profound sources of the Basques’ strength and their endurance as a people. Photography by Joyce Laxalt.
Download or read book The Basque Hotel written by Robert Laxalt and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Basque Hotel, the first volume in Laxalt's Basque-family trilogy, is the coming of age story of a young Basque boy named Pete. Too prone to dreams, Pete undergoes his rites of passage -- cruelty and kindness, disillusionment, love and terror, pathos and hilarious adventure, and finally, a cautious understanding of his world.
Book Synopsis Child of the Holy Ghost by : Robert Laxalt
Download or read book Child of the Holy Ghost written by Robert Laxalt and published by . This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second installment in Laxalt's Basque-family trilogy, this novel takes an adult-aged Pete to the Basque Country to uncover his parents' secret reasons for immigrating to the U.S. Pete finds himself stepping back into a medieval morality, into the rigid and unrelenting code of his ancestors, older and stronger than reason. Denied by his own blood kin, cold anger forges his determination to pierce the silence of the villagers and learn the circumstances of Maitia's, his mother's birth. One by one, the ghosts rise up, piecing together the story of Maitia's shame and her resolve to gain the respect that could only be found in America. Interwoven is the story of Petya, Pete's father, forced to flee the high Pyrenees by accident and find a new life as a lonely sheepherder in the northern deserts of Nevada. His struggles with loneliness and the temptations of emerging manhood provide a background for the stark reality of a young immigrant whose pain and growing sense of self-determination transform him into the essential being we know as American.
Download or read book Dust Devils written by Robert Laxalt and published by Western Literature and Fiction. This book was released on 1997 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Laxalt's new novella is an action-packed coming-of-age tale set in the violent and conflict-ridden days of the early 20th century.
Download or read book A Time We Knew written by Robert Laxalt and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Not the Best? written by Jimmy Carter and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Not the Best?, originally published in 1975, is President Carter’s presidential campaign autobiography, the book that introduced the world to Georgia governor Jimmy Carter and asked the American people to demand the best and highest standards of excellence from our government.
Book Synopsis In a Hundred Graves by : Robert Laxalt
Download or read book In a Hundred Graves written by Robert Laxalt and published by Basque. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at life in the Basque Country
Book Synopsis Travels with My Royal by : Robert Laxalt
Download or read book Travels with My Royal written by Robert Laxalt and published by Basque. This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt has embraced a wide range of subjects in his nearly half-century career. In this candid memoir, he explores what is perhaps his most difficult subject ever himself and his life as a writer. The book opens with a series of vignettes about his youth in Carson City as the second son of an immigrant Basque family and his later experiences as a student at the University of Nevada in Reno. The second part of the book tells of Laxalt's career as a writer his early days as a reporter when his assignments included interviews with gangsters and obligatory attendance at executions; his later adventures as a contract writer for National Geographic, and his two stays in the Basque Country. He also recounts his days as director of the University of Nevada's news service and his role in the founding of the University of Nevada Press. The third section discusses the writing of several of his major books where the ideas came from, what he tried to accomplish in each book, the challenges he faced, and the ways he chose to resolve them. Foreword by Cheryll Glotfelty."
Download or read book Robert Laxalt written by Warren Lerude and published by Center for Basque Studies Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the Nevada writer Robert Laxalt that focuses on his writing career from journalist to acclaimed author, founder of the University of Nevada Press, and educator.
Download or read book All That Followed written by Gabriel Urza and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bold, stunning book...The reader is drawn in not because we want to find out what happened, but why it happened..."--NPR A psychologically twisting novel about a politically-charged act of violence that echoes through a small Spanish town; a debut novel that the New York Times Book Review calls "a triumph." It's 2004 in Muriga, a quiet town in Spain's northern Basque Country, a place with more secrets than inhabitants. Five years have passed since the kidnapping and murder of a young local politician-a family man and father-and the town's rhythms have almost returned to normal. But in the aftermath of the Atocha train bombings in Madrid, an act of terrorism that rocked a nation and a world, the townspeople want a reckoning of Muriga's own troubled past: Everyone knows who pulled the trigger five years ago, but is the young man now behind bars the only one to blame? All That Followed peels away the layers of a crime complicated by history, love, and betrayal. The accounts of three townspeople in particular-the councilman's beautiful young widow, the teenage radical now in jail for the crime, and an aging American teacher hiding a traumatic past of his own-hold the key to what really happened. And for these three, it's finally time to confront what they can find of the truth. Inspired by a true story, All That Followed is a powerful, multifaceted novel about a nefarious kind of violence that can take hold when we least expect. Urgent, elegant, and gorgeously atmospheric, Urza's debut is a book for the world we live in now, and it marks the arrival of a brilliant new writer to watch.
Download or read book My Germany written by Lev Raphael and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted by his parents’ horrific suffering and traumatic losses under Nazi rule, Lev Raphael grew up loathing everything German. Those feelings shaped his Jewish identity, his life, and his career. While researching his mother’s war years after her death, he discovers a distant relative living in the very city where she had worked in a slave labor camp, found freedom, and met his father. Soon after, Raphael is launched on book tours in Germany and, in the process, redefines himself as someone unafraid to face the past and let it go. Bookmarks, “Top Ten Nonfiction Titles of 2009”
Book Synopsis Passion and Principle by : Sally Denton
Download or read book Passion and Principle written by Sally Denton and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Charles Främont was the illegitimate child of a Virginia aristocrat and a working-class French immigrant; Jessie Benton was the daughter of the most powerful pre-Civil War U.S. senator, Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, and, her gender notwithstanding, had been groomed as much as any young man to be president. Senator Benton unwittingly brought the two together, never imagining that his daughter would fall in love with Främont. Despite their disparate backgrounds, however, John and Jessie?s marriage was one of the most storied events of the nineteenth century. And indeed, Jessie and John made a formidable couple. Both together and apart they contributed significantly to shaping the United States. He was a key figure in western expansion and the first presidential candidate for the Republican Party. She was a savvy political operator who played confidante and adviser to the highest political powers in the country. Despite their great efforts on behalf of their country, however, their reputations did not survive a Washington smear campaign led by none other than Jessie?s father. Written with an investigative journalist?s eye for detail and a novelist?s flair, this biography of explorer, politician, and gold-mine owner John C. Främont and his intellectual wife, Jessie Benton Främont, also casts light on the tumultuous period that forms the backdrop for their lives, from the abolition of slavery to the building of the railroad.
Book Synopsis Literary Nevada by : Cheryll Glotfelty
Download or read book Literary Nevada written by Cheryll Glotfelty and published by Western Literature and Fiction. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 200 writings about Nevada with selections from Native American tales to contemporary writings on urban experience and environmental concerns. This book includes sections on cowboy poetry, wild Nevada, travel writing, and nuclear Nevada; and narratives about rural life and life in Las Vegas and Reno.
Book Synopsis A Man in the Wheatfield by : Robert Laxalt
Download or read book A Man in the Wheatfield written by Robert Laxalt and published by Western Literature and Fiction. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An allegorical tale illustrating the human traits of evil and fear
Book Synopsis Sweet Promised Land, 50th ed. by : Robert Laxalt
Download or read book Sweet Promised Land, 50th ed. written by Robert Laxalt and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How long has it been since you fell in love with a book? Dominique Laxalt was sixteen when he left the French Pyrenees for America. He became a sheepherder in the Nevada desert and nearby hills of the Sierra. Like all his fellow Basque immigrants, Dominique dreamed of someday returning to the land of his beginnings. Most Basques never made the journey back, but Dominique finally did return for a visit with family and friends. Sweet Promised Land is the story of that trip, told by his son Robert, who accompanied him to the pastoral mountain village of Tardets in France. Dominique came home victorious, the adventurer who had conquered the unknown and found his fortune in the New World. He told of his life in America, the hardships and challenges, and began to realize that he had changed since his departure from Tardets. By the end of the visit, he knew with certainty where he belonged. During the past fifty years, this book has become a classic in Western American literature, still beloved by the Basque-American community. In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s publication, western literature scholar Ann Ronald wrote a new foreword, discussing the book in the context of American and Nevada literature.
