| The Eye of the Mammoth: New and Selected Essays Contributor(s): Harrigan, Stephen (Author), Lemann, Nicholas (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1477320091 ISBN-13: 9781477320099 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - History | Essays - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 814.54 |
| LCCN: 2019016074 |
| Series: Jack and Doris Smothers Texas History, Life, and Culture |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.45 lbs) 424 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: History--natural history, human history, and personal history--and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan's career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ancestors' village in the Czech Republic. And now, in this new edition, he movingly recounts in Off Course a quest to learn all he can about his father, who died in a plane crash six months before he was born.Harrigan's deceptively straightforward voice belies an intense curiosity about things that, by his own admission, may be unknowable. Certainly, we are limited in what we can know about the inner life of George Washington, the last days of Davy Crockett, the motives of a caged tiger, or a father we never met, but Harrigan's gift--a gift that has also made him an award-winning novelist--is to bring readers closer to such things, to make them less remote, just as a cave painting in the title essay eerily transmits the living stare of a long-extinct mammoth. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harrigan, Stephen: - Stephen Harrigan is the author of numerous works of nonfiction and fiction, including the critically acclaimed novels A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, Remember Ben Clayton, and the New York Times best seller The Gates of the Alamo. He is a longtime writer for Texas Monthly and an award-winning screenwriter who has written many movies for television. |