THE BATTLE OF POLLOCKS CROSSING

J L Carr

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Language: English

Published by Quince Tree Press, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1993

0900847964 / 9780900847967

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This new unread copy is bound in illustrated card covers as issued. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. This copy is one of a limited edition of 2000 copies. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. J. L. Carr’s The Battle of Pollocks Crossing is a compact, quietly devastating novel about an idealistic English teacher whose year in a small South Dakota town exposes the fragility of the American Dream on the eve of the 1929 crash. It blends dry humour, cultural observation, and a slow-building sense of historical tragedy. The novel follows George Gidner, a young English exchange teacher from Bradford, who travels to the American Midwest hoping for adventure, self‑renewal, and a taste of the mythic West. Instead, he finds a Depression-struck prairie town where optimism is thin and livelihoods are precarious a community shaped by economic anxiety, cultural misunderstandings, and the looming Wall Street Crash. A series of events culminating in the mysterious deaths of two townsmen—Henry Farewell, a banker, and James Aardvark, an elderly blind grocer at the isolated Pollock’s Crossing. Ref A6 6.…

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Title
THE BATTLE OF POLLOCKS CROSSING
Author
J L Carr
Publisher
Quince Tree Press, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Publication year
1993
Condition
New
Binding
Soft cover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0900847964
ISBN 13
9780900847967
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