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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.
First line
Just after passing Caraher's saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muertos, Presley was suddenly aware of the faint and prolonged blowing of a steam whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot at Bonneville.
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- Title The Octopus
- Author Frank Norris
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 508
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Kessinger Publishing
- Date 2004-06-17
- ISBN 9781419175862 / 1419175866
- Weight 1.91 lbs (0.87 kg)
- Dimensions 8.76 x 7.94 x 1.07 in (22.25 x 20.17 x 2.72 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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