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425 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter pink cloth with silver lettering to spine over green boards with blind-stamped "A" to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Hays's second novel (after The Dixie Association ) does not stick to the '60s situation with which it initially commands attention--Will the authorities catch up with a young man who has burnt his draft card?--but it never entirely loses its pull on the reader. Three major characters take turns telling the story: the young man, Jesse Lee Cantwell, his current girlfriend, Gloria Alice Dawn, and his father. All Arkansas and Missouri natives, the youngsters are otherwise typical of the middle-class rebels of the time; but not the father, Samuel Langhorne Maledon, a genial, cynical carnival con man who has never done much for his son (who was reared by a rich stepfather). Maledon's attempts now to save Jesse from the law are ingenious and entertaining, but halfway through the long, involved…
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- Title The Hangman's Children:
- Author Donald Hays
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 425
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
- Date 1989
- ISBN 9780871133090 / 0871133091
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89030184
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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- Library Journal, 06/15/1989, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 05/05/1989, Page 0
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