{"product_id":"cactus-thorn-a-novella-western-literature-9780874172539","title":"Cactus Thorn A Novella Western Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormal in its dialogue, passionate and romantic in its evocation of the Southwest, where the central action takes place, this slender novella is at heart a feminist tract. . . . Written in 1927 and never before published, the story is timeless in setting and moral tone. Like Austin's other novels (\u003cem\u003eEarth Horizon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLand of Little Rain\u003c\/em\u003e), it is a powerful enactment of a woman's need to choose between a man and the land she loves.\"\" —\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"In \u003cem\u003eCactus Thorn\u003c\/em\u003e, Austin has combined the clear, bone-deep prose of her finest landscape writing with a complex psychological portrait of a love affair, producing what must surely rank as a new classic of western American literature.\"\"—\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Mary Austin speaks powerfully to our own historical movement, for she experienced and wrote about much that feminist scholars have recently unearthed—the transformative power of the land, the costs of women’s lives of action, essential tensions between the sexes, a woman’s love of what men once called the waste places of the West.\"\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Women’s Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"To paraphrase Graulich's summation: this book liberates a woman's wit, anger, and imagination.\"\"—Judy Nolte Lensink, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women","brand":"MP-NEV University of Nevada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038994760023,"sku":"9780874172539","price":15.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780874172539.jpg?v=1750942205","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cactus-thorn-a-novella-western-literature-9780874172539","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}