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Buffalo Coat
Originally published in 1944, Buffalo Coat appeared for several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The first adult novel written by acclaimed Idaho writer Carol Ryrie Brink, winner of the Newbery Award for the outstanding book of children's literature in 1936, Buffalo Coat has become a classic of Northwest literature. Buffalo Coat tells the tale of three doctors who came to Opportunity (Moscow), Idaho, in the 1890s seeking success and fortune in the town with the promising name. Yet each of their lives ended in tragedy.
Book Details
- Publisher: Washington State University Press
- Publish Date: Sep 8th, 1993
- Pages: 421
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 1.20in - 1.75lb
- EAN: 9780874220957
- Categories: • Westerns - General• Historical - General
About the Author
Brink, Carol Ryrie: -
Carol Ryrie Brink (1895-1981) wrote more than thirty books for adults and children. Her most acclaimed work, Caddie Woodlawn, won the Newbery Medal in 1936. Born in Moscow, Idaho, and raised by her loving grandmother, her Idaho trilogy fictionalized stories from her early childhood.
Praise for this book
"The author knows the life of a small town and writes with humor and understanding."
--New York Times
"Her writing has warmth, her characters are multi-dimensional, her incidents credible and all too human."
--Chicago Tribune
"Unlike most pictures of life in American small towns, Mrs. Brink neither romanticizes nor vilifies."
--The Saturday Review of Literature