HUNKY
by Williamson, Thames
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Amherst, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Coward - McCann, Inc.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. 8vo; 312 pages; The main character, " Hunky " , brilliantly described , and unsparing, and graphically detailed : Lonesome, awesomely strong, inarticulate, struggling to communicate, often ridiculed as stupid, only satisfiedv with routine , certainty in his life...... Others are characterized in generalized stereotypes as that is how Hunky sees others: annoying, not understandable , frightening , to Hunky The Story line is not as intriguing as the portrayal of the character of Hunky, but the detailed actions of Hunky ineptly trying to destroy the bakery machine that replaced him is quite moving.....Authored by Thames Thomas Ross Williamson ( 1894 - 1961 ) Pulitzer Prize winning author of " The Woods Colt " , Idaho-born author who ran away from home at age 14, became successively a tramp, circus hand, sailor, shepherder, reporter, prison official .Educated - graduatung from Uiversity of Iowa, studied a Harvard, a teacher , wrote textbooks on economics and sociology , whote many books under pseudonyms .
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- Bookseller
- Mary's Used Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1902
- Title
- HUNKY
- Author
- Williamson, Thames
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Coward - McCann, Inc.
- Date Published
- 1929
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