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Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a Camelot on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur's castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging. These knights are paisanos, men of mixed heritage, whose ancestors settled California hundreds of years before.
As Steinbeck recounts their deeds--their multiple loves, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking--he spins a tale as compelling and sorrowful as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him.
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This installment in the Sackett Family saga follows the adventures of Lando Sackett who, after six years in jail, has revenge etched on his brain--and he will not stop until the men who set up his fall get what is coming to them.
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Like Jim Fergus's previous novel, ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN, this one looks back into the history of the American West to tell a story of tensions between Native Americans and whites. In THE WILD GIRL, an eighty-something photographer named Ned Giles recalls an episode from 1932 through the diaries he kept at the time. As a young man, Ned was part of an expedition to find and free a boy who was captured by the Apaches--using an Apache girl as ransom. Ned has photographed the girl, and her narrative combines with extracts from Ned's diaries to tell a story that resonates years later, and that lays bare some of the harsh truths about the American presence in the West.
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