- Fantasy, Fiction, Dinosaurs, Imaginary histories
In West of Eden, bestselling author Harry Harrison has created a rich, dramatic saga of a world where the descendants of the dinosaurs struggled with a clan of humans in a battle for survival.Here is the story of Kerrick, a young hunter who grows to manhood among the dinosaurs, escaping at last to rejoin his own kind.
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Epic, grave, classical in form and earnest.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Harry Harrison
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 502
- Publisher
- Ibooks, Bantam, I Books
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Spanish, Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9780743487184
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Harry Max Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut. He moved with his family to New York early in his childhood. On his 18th birthday, having graduated from high school, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps, and serves as an armourer, gunnery instructor, truck driver, and military police officer. When the war ended, he became an art student at both the Hunter College in New York City and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Upon graduation, he became a freelance graphic artist, providing illustrations for book covers, magazines, and comic books such as Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. He also began contributing articles to these magazines. In 1952, he moved
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