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Aransas
A critically acclaimed debut novel first published in 1980, Aransas recounts a young man's attempt to find his place in the world as he navigates the moral dilemma of training an "exquisitely conscious being" to perform in a seaside dolphin circus.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Texas Press
- Publish Date: Jul 1st, 2014
- Pages: 274
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.62in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9780292758148
- Categories: • Literary• Animals
About the Author
Harrigan, Stephen: - STEPHEN HARRIGAN is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning novels The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton and the critically acclaimed essay collection The Eye of the Mammoth. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly and a faculty fellow at the University of Texas’s Michener Center for Writers.
Praise for this book
A resonant first novel. Beneath its genial surface, allusive undercurrents tug.-- "New York Times Book Review"
The sureness and poise of this first novel are as remarkable as the sharpness, oddity, and clarity of its feelings . . . Aransas is an elegant debut.-- "Newsweek"
Harrigan's eye for locale and its effect is superb.-- "Washington Post Book World"
Harrigan . . . has a sharp eye for observing man, beast, seashore, and town in a vividly drawn setting.-- "Publishers Weekly"
An ardent and elegant book, beautiful in its language, mature in its perceptions, noble in its sentiments.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
A sensitive, enormously evocative first novel in a spare but warm prose style that immerses us in atmosphere as insistently as it does the plot . . . Harrigan is a splendid novelist.-- "Houston Post"
Aransas has several surprises, including dramatic suspense, counterculture revisionism, and what must be considered dolphin revisionism. More, Harrigan has written an acute American regional novel.-- "Village Voice"