Synopsis
Coming to Port Aransas to catch and train porpoises for his benefactor's oceanarium, Jeff Downing falls in love with Mary Katherine and tries to prevent a porpoise from being sold for a movie
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Review
"Aransas has several surprises, including dramatic suspense, counterculture revisionism, and what must be considered dolphin revisionism. More, Harrigan has written an acute American regional novel." * Village Voice * "A sensitive, enormously evocative first novel in a spare but warm prose style that immerses us in atmosphere as insistently as it does the plot . . . Harrigan is a splendid novelist." * Houston Post * "An ardent and elegant book, beautiful in its language, mature in its perceptions, noble in its sentiments." * San Francisco Chronicle * "Harrigan . . . has a sharp eye for observing man, beast, seashore, and town in a vividly drawn setting." * Publishers Weekly * "Harrigan's eye for locale and its effect is superb." * Washington Post Book World * "The sureness and poise of this first novel are as remarkable as the sharpness, oddity, and clarity of its feelings . . . Aransas is an elegant debut." * Newsweek * "A resonant first novel. Beneath its genial surface, allusive undercurrents tug." * New York Times Book Review *
About the Author
Stephen Harrigan is author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning novels The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton, the critically acclaimed new novel A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, and the essay collection The Eye of the Mammoth.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Jacket art by Wendell Minor. A couple small soil spots on a few pages, offsetting on front endpapers, soiling on boards, very good in a near fine dust jacket with slight toning and edgewear. Signed by Minor on the rear flap of the jacket beneath his printed name. Seller Inventory # 595504
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First edition. Texas novelist, Stephen Harrigan's first book, published 20 years before his bestselling work,The Gates of the Alamo.This copy with an interesting association, inscribed to Texas fine printer, W. Thomas Taylor, apparently "an old diving buddy" of Harrigan's. 8vo, 260pp. Signed and inscribed by Harrigan to Tom Taylor and dated in the month of publication on the ffep. Cloth backed, off white paper boards in illustrated jacket. bottom edges of boards and edges of jacket a bit toned. Nearly fine. Seller Inventory # 6063
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NF/VG+. Small chip top front jacket. Signed by author on title page. Original jacket price of $9.95 intact. One of Texas' top 50 books. 260 pp. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 12349
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NF/NF. Inscribed by author on title page. One of A. C. Greene's Texas Top 50 books by the author of the Gates of the Alamo. Seller Inventory # 13531