Oakley Hall
1) Warlock
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This is the big novel that some day was bound to some day come out of our proud Western tradition. It is the story of a lonely marshal who was as much outside the law as the terrorists he was hired to destroy, and of the town he tried to rid of violence. Drawing on events known to have happened on the Southwest frontier of the 1880s, Oakley Hall not only has brought to life one of the most vivid periods of out national history, but has done it with...
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The Sweeping Novel of a Twentieth-Century California Life
Love and War in California tells the story, through the eyes of Payton Daltrey, of the last sixty years of an evolving America.
The award-winning author Oakley Hall begins his newest work in 1940s San Diego, where his endearing, wide-eyed narrator must define his identity in terms of self, family, and World War II. As his classmates disappear into the war one by one, he becomes obsessed with...
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Travail du style, symboles et métaphores, flash-back, processus de création.
Cet ouvrage vous aidera à stimuler votre créativité grâce à une large gamme de techniques. Le succès de la méthode a été prouvé aux Etats-Unis.
On y découvrira également de nouvelles voies pour faire d'un manuscrit inachevé un écrit professionnel publiable.
Une nouvelle édition de ce guide qui propose des techniques pour la rédaction d'un livre.
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Écrire avec précision, toucher les sens, le choix des mots, réussir les dialogues...
A travers intrigues, personnages, choix des mots, voix et styles, l'auteur nous démonte pièce par pièce l'architecture d'histoires romanesques. Rien que la lecture de cet ouvrage donne d'emblée l'impression qu'on est déjà un écrivain à succès.
Cet ouvrage vous donnera toutes les ficelles pour bien construire un récit de fiction.
EXTRAIT
Mes quinze...
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Its 1883 in Johnson County, in the old Dakota Territorya rugged, wide-open landscape of rolling, red earth, prairie, and cattle as far as the eye can see. But the land is closing, the Beef Bonanza is ending, and the free-range cattlemen are stuck watching a way of life disappear in a blaze of drought and gunfire.
An action-packed western from one of the masters of the genre, Oakley Halls The Bad Lands blends roundups and rustlers, whorehouses and...
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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A witty mystery in 1880s San Francisco featuring the anti-feminist journalist, Ambrose Bierce, as he investigates the murder of prostitutes. The tale is narrated by his young assistant, Tom Redmond. By the author of The Bad Lands.
12) So many doors
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Hard Case Crime book ; HCC-137
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer assigned to defend him. It begins with a beautiful woman dead, murdered - Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all simply as V. That's where this extraordinary novel begins. But the story it tells begins years earlier, on a struggling farm in the shadow of the Great Depression and among the brawling "cat skinners" of Southern California, driving graders and bulldozers to...
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Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1985]
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English
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The adventures of a tenderhearted lush who talks to horses, a red-headed stinkpot brat, a dwarf with a traveling pharmacy, a world-weary grizzly named Duke, an army of dark, violent riders, and perhaps even the Devil himself-- all are part of the magic of The Coming of the Kid. In this salty and irresistible fable, Oakley Hall pays homage to the legends of the Old West, serving them up with subversive good humor. This is the story of how the marvelous...
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Library of America ; 331
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Set in Nevada in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a gripping story about the perils of lynch law and the fragility of civilized norms in the West. Outraged by reports of the murder of a rancher and the theft of cattle, a posse of vigilantes sets out to find the culprits but instead targets three strangers who are innocent of the crime. Walter Van Tilburg Clark's novel, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 1940, offers a powerful exploration of group...
19) Warlock
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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A sheriff is brought in to clean up the crime-ridden town of Warlock.