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Deserves to be both widely read and profusely honored . . . A great, big, wonderful book. "The Sunday 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""
"Deserves to be both widely read and profusely honored . . . A great, big, wonderful book." --The Sunday 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
Spanning forty years, The Magic Journey tells the tale of how progress transformed a rural backwater into a boomtown. At first, it was a magic time for Chamisaville -- almost as if every day were a holiday. But the euphoria gradually dissipated, and the land-hungry developers, speculators, and interlopers moved in. Finally, the day came when Chamisaville's people found themselves all but displaced, their children no longer heirs to their land or their traditions. With mounting intensity, The Magic Journey reaches a climax that is tragically foreordained. A sensitive, vital, and honest chronicle of life in America's Southwest, it is also an incisive commentary on what America has become on its road to progress.
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Book Description Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed with lengthy inscription by author on inside front cover. A Good copy. 12mo (Mass Market). Book has edgewear, bumped corners, fold & stress lines to covers, rubbing to covers, minor smudges to edges of text block & back cover, and age-related toning to pages. Interior is tight & unmarked. Seller Inventory # 604880
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Collectible - Fine. First Edition, First Thus. Pocket 82311-6. Stated First Printing, June, 1979. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light corner tip & surface wear, and faint creasings to mid-front. Text edges dyed yellow. Book two of the New Mexico trilogy by John Treadwell Nichols (1940 - ). A series dealing with social complexities rising from the historical past, race and ethnicity, and "correct" use of natural resources (land and water rights figure prominently) in the fictional Chamisaville County, New Mexico. Set in 1930, this volume evolves around the sudden emergence of a hot spring . a gusher of prosperity? The trilogy consists of The Milagro Beanfield War (which was adapted into the film The Milagro Beanfield War directed by Robert Redford), The Magic Journey, and The Nirvana Blues. Seller Inventory # 009917