About this title: A tale of primitive love and vendetta set in the timeless French landscape of river, mountain and forest. Sailor, a woodsman, has twin sons, the elder of whom is dead and the younger, the red-head, has gone missing upcountry where the powerful landowner Maudru holds sway. With his friend Antonio, the riverman, he goes in search of the boy, fearing that he too has been killed. On the way they come upon a lone girl giving birth in the woods at dead of night, and they bring her to a place of safety. Once among Maudru's drovers, who effectively serve him as a private army, they have to watch ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780865470385ISBN:0865470383
Description: Good. An average used book that has all pages intact. Could have some creasing on the spine or covers. Note this book is considered a trade or oversize paperback book. Our ultimate goal is to provide you with a satisfying customer experience. read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: North Point Pr Pub Date: 6/1/1981 Binding: Paperback Pages: 320. read more
Description: Good. 2000-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Description: Good. 2001-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Date Published: 11/1/2001
ISBN-13:9781860467653ISBN:1860467652
Description: Very Good. 1860467652 Very Good softcover, light edge wear and corner bumps but no major damage to book. New York Times Book Review"There is still dew on this world of Giono's; he looks out on it and records his impressions of it almost as if he were the first man seeing it. The emotions of his people are refreshingly forthright and uncomplicated, and in his pages man stands in his natural relation to the animate and inanimate world about him. "--This text refers to the Paperback edition. read more
Description: Very Good. 0865470383 Former owner penciled name to flyleaf. Paperback with dust jacket--like wearing a belt with suspenders(? ) Great 1981 book with no other marking to textblock, page ends or inside cover. Cover and dust jacket in like new condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1937
Description: Good + No Jacket. Scuffs, soils, some rub marks, edge wear, and some shadows/soils on end papers; a decent readable copy. 312 pages. read more
"There are many fine passages throughout this book, but in general it is stylistically overwrought. It's an over-sized prose poem that grudgingly gives way, here and there, to plot. Too much "voice," too little narrative through-line. Almost everything (description, dialogue, etc.) hits the reader at poetic, oblique angle. This gives some passages a strangely medieval heft, and you feel as if what you have in your hands were Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. All in all, the novel is a difficult read, like some of Faulkner or early Cormac McCarthy. And as with McCarthy's The Orchard Keeper, I had to force myself to finish the book. I look forward to trying other Giono novels; this was just an unfortunate place to start."
"I was interested in Jean Giono but reluctant to plunge in and read him because of some numbskulled preconception I had of him as being a sentimental Frenchie (Manon of the Spring sentimental, yeah good, but still sentimental) who romanticized the peasant life and who would make me want to sit on a stool in some village sipping wine and jawboning in a language I don't even know for the rest of my life. Well... I was wrong. Turns out, at least in this book and the other (Horseman on the Roof) I've read, he just hated the 20th century and its proliferating insanity (he wrote this in the 30's) and thought that the natural world and its seasons just might have something to teach us. His characters are less fully fleshed people than natural elements fleshed into people, forces of nature, but that doesn't bother me, because he gets the core impulses so right. This is a story (almost like a classic western, The Searchers, say) of a man's seeking trek through a timeless unforgiving French countryside for his son whom he fears has been abducted and killed by a band of rogues. But it gets complicated because a group is looking for his son for marrying a girl against everyone's wishes."
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