Name: The Canyons (en Inglés)
SKU: 49915913
Price: 19.85 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Kostival, Ben
ISBN: 9780998414621

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Ben Kostival

Editorial

Radial Books, LLC

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3x12.7x1.5 cm

Peso

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9780998414621

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria
Ficción histórica

The Canyons (en Inglés)

Ben Kostival (Autor) · Radial Books, LLC · Tapa Blanda

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The Canyons combines the naturalism of Frank Norris' McTeague with the modernist techniques of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, yielding a work of historical noir that Howard Zinn called "an ingenious blending of fact and fiction." Based on the Colorado coalfield war of 1913-14, The Canyons borrows the zeitgeist of a century ago to allegorize contemporary conditions of national, populist ferment.The Canyons unfolds through the perspective of Harlan Baxter, a functionary tasked by his New York-based company to investigate deteriorating conditions at a Colorado coal mine. While Baxter struggles to orient himself in the pressurized coalfields, a mine shaft explodes, killing several miners and precipitating a strike. The company imposes harsh countermeasures which Baxter must oversee, but when provocation leads to murder, Baxter allies himself with the miners to fight alongside them in the most violent labor insurrection in American history.The Canyons reintroduces the coalfield war to new generations. The passion, drama, and context of the strike bear directly on American inequality, racial strife, and the suppression of labor. Books like George McGovern and Leon Guttridge's The Great Coalfield War and Scott Martelle's Blood Passion have examined the strike in non-fiction, and David Mason's Ludlow covers it in epic-poem form, but the Coalfield War has never before received proper treatment in a novel. With fully rounded characters, a fast-paced plot, and a compelling moral force, The Canyons will appeal alike to scholars, students, and general readers.