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  • Aransas

    A Novel

    "Beneath the genial surface" of this "resonant" first novel about a dolphin trainer who struggles with the ethics of his job "allusive undercurrents tug" ( The New York Times Book Review).A critically acclaimed debut novel first published in 1980, Aransas recounts a young man's homecoming to his small Gulf Coast fishing town of Port Aransas. As Jeff Downing begins work training two porpoises to ... Leer más

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  • Sorrowful Mysteries

    The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century

    Part memoir, part mystery: a powerful exploration of the three secrets of Fatima and a man’s journey grappling with his own faithIn 1917, in Fatima, Portugal, three shepherd children claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared before them and spoke the words, “Do not be afraid.”Stephen Harrigan first heard the story of Our Lady of Fatima when he was a young boy attending a Catholic school in Texas in ... Leer más

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  • Big Wonderful Thing

    A History of Texas

    Series series The Texas Bookshelf
    2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and ... Leer más

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  • A Natural State

    Essays on Texas

    "The personal essay at its best. What Edward Abbey did for the desert Southwest and what E. B. White did for Maine, Harrigan has done for Texas." — Houston ChronicleIn this remarkable collection of essays, Stephen Harrigan explores, with an unfailing depth of feeling, the human longing to feel at home in the world of nature. In vivid and convincing prose, he evokes the landscape of his home ... Leer más

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  • Water and Light

    A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef

    Series series Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University
    The New York Times–bestselling author's memoir of diving in the Caribbean offers " in precise, lucid, prose, the marvels of the sea bottom" ( New Yorker).Author Stephen Harrigan spent months diving on the coral reefs of Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean. In this evocative account, he describes his many explorations, both personal and natural. Though he is there to learn about the history of the ... Leer más

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  • Remember Ben Clayton

    A novel

    From the author of the acclaimed best seller The Gates of the Alamo, a new novel that confirms and enlarges Stephen Harrigan’s reputation as a major voice in American fiction.Francis “Gil” Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition. But bad fortune and his own prideful spirit have driven him from New York into artistic exile in Texas just after World War I. His adult daughter, Maureen, serves ... Leer más

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  • The Gates of the Alamo

    A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo, an event that formed the consciousness of Texas and that resonates through American history. With its vibrant, unexpected characters and its richness of authentic detail, The Gates of the Alamo is an unforgettable re-creation of a time, a place, and a heroic conflict.The time is 1835. At the center of a canvas crowded ... Leer más

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  • A Friend of Mr. Lincoln

    A novel

    The author of the best-selling The Gates of the Alamo now gives us a galvanizing portrait of Abraham Lincoln during a crucially revealing period of his life, the early Springfield years, when he risked both his sanity and his ethical bearings as he searched for the great destiny he believed to be his.It is Illinois in the 1830s and 1840s. Abraham Lincoln is a circuit-riding lawyer, a member of the ... Leer más

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  • Challenger Park

    A Novel

    From the author of the acclaimed and best-selling The Gates of the Alamo, a novel of extraordinary power about what it’s like, and what it means, to journey into space as one of today’s astronauts.At the novel’s center: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to an astronaut, the loving mother of two young children, with a fierce ambition to excel in the space program. Her husband, Brian, a rigorous ... Leer más

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  • An Anchor in the Sea of Time

    Essays

    A new collection of essays grappling with identity and memory, from a master of the form.The author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Gates of the Alamo, the sweeping Texas history Big Wonderful Thing, and decades of incisive journalism, Stephen Harrigan is an adept writer skilled in crafting memorable characters. From this singular voice now comes a collection of essays tackling the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Eye of the Mammoth

    New and Selected Essays

    Series Libro 38 - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    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, ... Leer más

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  • The Leopard Is Loose

    A novel

    The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy’s world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the Oklahoma City zoo, throwing all the local residents into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child’s confrontation with his deepest fearsFor Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that ... Leer más

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