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Product Identifiers
PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-100805063749
ISBN-139780805063745
eBay Product ID (ePID)145481
Product Key Features
Book TitleMilagro Beanfield War : a Novel
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHispanic & Latino, General, Literary, Historical
Publication Year2000
FeaturesRevised
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Nichols
Book SeriesThe New Mexico Trilogy Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight13.1 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-011937
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Gentle, funny, transcendent." -- The New York Times Book Review "A work of genius . . . Hilarious." -- Newsday "Transcendentally profound, also achingly funny . . . Like a wonderful poem, or a great restaurant." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "An epic scope, a wide-screen background, a large and varied cast of charming eccentrics and truly rotten villains." -- The Washington Post "Deserves to be both widely read and profusely honored . . . A great, big, wonderful book." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "One of the most compelling novels I've read in a long time . . . As timeless as it is timely." -- Chicago Tribune Book World
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisThe Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy ("Gentle, funny, transcendent." -- The New York Times Book Review ), later adapted to film by Robert Redford. Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation., Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.
LC Classification NumberPS3568.O243
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- 08. Sep. 2023
Small Field--Big Emotions!
Amazing Characters! Both the humans and the pets and other! Loved Pendejo the dog, Pacheco's pig, and el brazo de Onofre.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 21. Dez. 2021
OK! But patronizing!
Really gets to the heart of Norteno way. Just patronizing the simple folk. His Fragile Beauty is more compassionate and important of a view of the place in which I live.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 28. Sep. 2021
Beanfield
somewhat slapstick, entertaining and somewhat a fun read. You will understand the characters better here than in the moviegBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 14. Nov. 2023
Milagro Beanfield Wars
GREAT story about acequias in Taos NM...Milagro Beanfield warsBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 11. Nov. 2023
Fascinating
Great bookBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 21. Jul. 2022
Milagro Beanfield War
Such a great story.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
