Aransas - Softcover

Harrigan, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877190577 ISBN 13: 9780877190578

Publisher: Texas Monthly Pr, 1986

Synopsis

Reluctantly accepting a job with Dude Granger's Porpoise Circus after returning to his hometown on the Gulf Coast, Jeff Dowling learns to accept the animals he must train as if they were human

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Texas Monthly Pr
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877190577
• ISBN 13: 9780877190578
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1