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Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Edna Ferber
- First published
- 1929
- Pages
- 371
- Publisher
- Tom Stacey, Bantam, Grosset and Dunlap
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780899682792
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