Rabbit Boss - Hardcover

Sanchez, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436441209 ISBN 13: 9780436441202

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1974

Synopsis

This legendary, epic novel tells the story of four generations of the Washo in Nevada and Eastern California a story of dreams, dying, the loss of power, death and apotheosis."

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Review:

Rabbit Boss is a landmark work of twentieth-century American literature. A novel of dreams dying, the loss of power, the rebirth of the spirit, it is the most brilliant fictional evocation of the American West ever written. Powerful and exalting, Rabbit Boss tells the story of four generations of Washo in the California and Nevada Sierra.
"The Indian experience of the last 120 years...Rabbit Boss is of a size and scope that is awesome. Sanchez is a man of tremendous vision." -- Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
"Rabbit Boss deserves to become an American classic. A great novel, spanning a century in the life and death of an Indian tribe, told with epic perspective and infinite compassion."
-- National Observer
"Etched in unforgettable prose...Sanchez is to be congratulated."
-- Vine Deloria, Jr., author of Custer Died For Your Sins

About the Author:

Thomas Sanchez lived for many years in Key West, Mallorca, and Paris, where the French Republic awarded him the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. He currently resides in Key West. He is the author of King Bongo, Mile Zero, Day of the Bees, Zoot-Suit Murders and Rabbit Boss, which was named by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the most important books of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0436441209
• ISBN 13: 9780436441202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 467