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The Octopus
A Story of California
Taschenbuch von Frank Norris
Sprache: Englisch

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Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, The Octopus is a stunning novel of the waning days of the frontier West. To the tough-minded and self-reliant farmers, the monopolistic, land-grabbing railroad represented everything they despised: consolidation, organization, conformity. But Norris idealizes no one in this epic depiction of the volatile situation, for the farmers themselves ruthlessly exploited the land, and in their hunger for larger holdings they resorted to the same tactics used by the railroad: subversion, coercion and outright violence. In his introduction, Kevin Starr discusses Norris's debt to Zola for the novel's extraordinary sweep, scale and abundance of characters and details.
Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, The Octopus is a stunning novel of the waning days of the frontier West. To the tough-minded and self-reliant farmers, the monopolistic, land-grabbing railroad represented everything they despised: consolidation, organization, conformity. But Norris idealizes no one in this epic depiction of the volatile situation, for the farmers themselves ruthlessly exploited the land, and in their hunger for larger holdings they resorted to the same tactics used by the railroad: subversion, coercion and outright violence. In his introduction, Kevin Starr discusses Norris's debt to Zola for the novel's extraordinary sweep, scale and abundance of characters and details.
Über den Autor

Frank Norris has a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Florida. He worked most of his career on the Space Shuttle program, including developing theoretical models to predict Space Shuttle system performance. His easy-to-read style takes us on a journey to explain how colonizing Mars might really occur and why we should care.

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Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780140187700
ISBN-10: 0140187707
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Norris, Frank
Hersteller: Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 197 x 129 x 37 mm
Von/Mit: Frank Norris
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.1994
Gewicht: 0,717 kg
Artikel-ID: 129275619
Über den Autor

Frank Norris has a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Florida. He worked most of his career on the Space Shuttle program, including developing theoretical models to predict Space Shuttle system performance. His easy-to-read style takes us on a journey to explain how colonizing Mars might really occur and why we should care.

Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780140187700
ISBN-10: 0140187707
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Norris, Frank
Hersteller: Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 197 x 129 x 37 mm
Von/Mit: Frank Norris
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.1994
Gewicht: 0,717 kg
Artikel-ID: 129275619
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