| A Waif of the Plains Contributor(s): Harte, Bret (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517250692 ISBN-13: 9781517250690 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.18 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.13" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.20 lbs) 54 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A long level of dull gray that further away became a faint blue, with here and there darker patches that looked like water. At times an open space, blackened and burnt in an irregular circle, with a shred of newspaper, an old rag, or broken tin can lying in the ashes. Beyond these always a low dark line that seemed to sink into the ground at night, and rose again in the morning with the first light, but never otherwise changed its height and distance. A sense of always moving with some indefinite purpose, but of always returning at night to the same place-with the same surroundings, the same people, the same bedclothes, and the same awful black canopy dropped down from above. A chalky taste of dust on the mouth and lips, a gritty sense of earth on the fingers, and an all-pervading heat and smell of cattle. |
