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Milagro Beanfield War : A Novel by John Nichols (2000, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHolt & Company, Henry

ISBN-100805063749

ISBN-139780805063745

eBay Product ID (ePID)145481

Product Key Features

Book TitleMilagro Beanfield War : a Novel

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHispanic & Latino, General, Literary, Historical

Publication Year2000

FeaturesRevised

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorJohn Nichols

Book SeriesThe New Mexico Trilogy Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight13.1 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-011937

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Gentle, funny, transcendent." -- The New York Times Book Review "A work of genius . . . Hilarious." -- Newsday "Transcendentally profound, also achingly funny . . . Like a wonderful poem, or a great restaurant." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "An epic scope, a wide-screen background, a large and varied cast of charming eccentrics and truly rotten villains." -- The Washington Post "Deserves to be both widely read and profusely honored . . . A great, big, wonderful book." -- The 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

Series Volume Number1

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisThe Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy ("Gentle, funny, transcendent." -- The New York Times Book Review ), later adapted to film by Robert Redford. Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation., Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.

LC Classification NumberPS3568.O243