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  1. A Black Bridge: Poems
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  3. Archetypal Light: Poems
  4. Bad Boys and Black Sheep: Fateful Tales from the West
  5. Bathing in the River of Ashes
  6. Breathe Something Nice: Stories
  7. Ceremonies of the Damned: Poems
  8. Condor Dreams & Other Fictions
  9. Down by the Lemonade Springs: Essays on Wallace Stegner
  10. Dust Devils
  11. El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border
  12. First Horses: Stories of the New West
  13. Flight and Other Stories
  14. Flying Over Sonny Liston
  15. From the Still Empty Grave: Collected Poems
  16. Gunning for Ho: Vietnam Stories
  17. Harm
  18. Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction (Western Literature Series)
  19. In Gravity National Park: Poems
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  22. Just Past Labor Day: Selected and New Poems, 1969-1996
  23. Low Tide in the Desert: Nevada Stories
  24. Lucky (03 Edition)
  25. Lucky 13: Short Plays about Arizona, Nevada, and Utah
  26. Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State
  27. My Father's Martial Art: Poems
  28. My Mother's Lovers
  29. Off Paradise: Stories
  30. Ostrich
  31. Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Literature
  32. Reading Sand: Poems
  33. Separations
  34. Side Show: Poems
  35. Skin of the Earth: Stories from Nevada's Back Country
  36. Small Craft Warnings: Stories
  37. Small Rocks Rising
  38. Stegner: Conversations on History and Literature
  39. Straight White Male
  40. STRANGE ATTRACTION BEST OF TEN YEARS
  41. Strange Attraction: The Best of Ten Years of Zyzzyva
  42. That Water, Those Rocks
  43. The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales
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  45. The Blossom Festival
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  49. The Full Night Still in the Street Water
  50. The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension: Poems
  51. The Good Oak
  52. The Height and Depth of Everything
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  56. The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters
  57. The Oxbow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  58. The River Underground: An Anthology of Nevada Fiction
  59. The Track of the Cat
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  61. Torn by Light: Selected Poems
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Looking for Steinbeck's Ghost (Western Literature)

by Jackson J. Benson

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Jackson J. Benson's firsthand account of his fifteen-year effort to chronicle the life of John Steinbeck entertainingly interweaves personal anecdote and critical insight.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780874174977
Author:
Benson, Jackson J.
Publisher:
University of Nevada Press
Location:
Reno
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Novelists, American
Subject:
Biography as a literary form
Subject:
American
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Western Literature (Paperback)
Series Volume:
no. 02-06-010
Publication Date:
March 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
231
Dimensions:
8.16x4.74x.70 in. .65 lbs.
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