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Bentley Publishers, 1971. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, The Octopus is a stunning novel of the waning days of the frontier West. To the tough-minded and self-reliant farmers, the monopolistic, land-grabbing railroad represented everything they despised: consolidation, organization, conformity. But Norris idealizes no one in this epic depiction of the volatile situation, for the farmers themselves ruthlessly exploited the land, and in their hunger for larger holdings they resorted to the same tactics used by the railroad: subversion, coercion and outright violence. In his introduction, Kevin Starr discusses Norris's debt to Zola for the novel's extraordinary sweep, scale and abundance of characters and details.
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- Title Octopus A Story of California
- Author Frank Norris
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Ed, 1st Prin
- Publisher Bentley Pub, Cambridge, MAss
- Date June 1971
- ISBN 9780837604053
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Cambridge, Mass,: Robert Bentley Pub. Very Good+. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0837604052 . Bright red linen covers with gilt titles to the spine. A tightlybound copy with a bright, unmarked text. Light spine end and corner bumping. This is a Near fine copy. "The first of The Epic of Wheat Trilogy, this book describes the raising of wheat in California and the conflict between the wheat growers and a railway company. Benjamin Franklin Norris was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre." ; Maps; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 458 pages .
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