Name: Bucking the Tiger: A Novel (en Inglés)
SKU: 19165586
Price: 500.54 MXN
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Author: Olds, Bruce
ISBN: 9780312420246

portada Bucking the Tiger: A Novel (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Bruce Olds

Editorial

Picador

Año

2002

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

384

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6x14x2.8 cm

Peso

0.50 kg.

ISBN

0312420242

ISBN13

9780312420246

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria
Ficción histórica

Bucking the Tiger: A Novel (en Inglés)

Bruce Olds (Autor) · Picador · Tapa Blanda

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An American Library Association Notable Book John Henry Holliday was an Ivy League-educated dentist from a genteel Georgia family when at the age of twenty-one he was diagnosed with consumption and given six months to live. Instead, over the next fifteen years, he composed of his sojourn on America's western frontier a paean to the ways in which a man might bluff death--and attain a measure of immortality. In Bucking the Tiger, Bruce Olds uses a pan-dimensional, genre-blurring collage of original poems, reconstituted news accounts, adulterated epigraphs, song lyrics and photographs, simulated eyewitness testimony, fictionalized memoir, invented correspondence, re-imagined folk history--less to restore the past of a figure who in his lifetime was more thoroughly mythologized than Jesse James or Billy the Kid, than to re-story it entirely. Evoking Doc Holliday's checkered careers as a frontier dentist, itinerant saloon gambler, professional faro dealer, and occasional shootist (including his involvement in the fabled gunfight at the OK Corral), Bucking the Tiger displaces the popular image of the Latin-spouting serial killer with the reality of a human being who, exiled to an emotional and physical landscape to which he was singularly unsuited, strove to make of his self-affliction an expression of sustained, if often violent, art.