- Fiction, Social control, Violence, Social conflict
Sharpshooter Clay Blaisedell is called to Warlock, a wild frontier town, to restore order, but the more he tries to fix the town's problems, the more the town plunges into chaos all around him.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Oakley Hall
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 471
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press, University of Nevada Press, New York Review Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780803272064
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