Mountain City
By the end of Gregory Martin's unsentimental but affecting memoir, only thirty-one people live in remote Mountain City, Nevada, and none of them are children. The town's abandoned mines are testimony to the cycle of promise, exploitation, abandonment, and attrition that has been the repeated story of the West. Yet the comings and goings at Tremewan's, the general store Martin's family has run for more than forty years, reveal a remarkably vibrant community that includes salty widows, Native Americans from a nearby reservation, and a number of Martin's deeply idiosyncratic Basque-descended relatives. Martin observes them as they persist in a d…
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- ISBN: 978-0-86547-616-5
- EAN: 9780865476165
- Produktnummer: 9351128
- Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 204 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.2 cm 280 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 280
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