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Peculiar savage beauty : a novel / Jessica McCann.
Van Pelt Library PS3613.C34544 P43 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCann, Jessica, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939--Fiction.
- Farm life--Kansas--Fiction.
- Farm life.
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Kansas.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 413 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Phoenix, Arizona : Perspective Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- RJ Evans, a geologist for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, begins a new job in a small farming town ravaged by the Dust Bowl, where drought and over-plowing have turned the once-lush plains into a brutal twin of the Sahara; and befriends Woody, an autistic savant born in an era long before any medical diagnosis would explain his peculiar ways and unique talents.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 414).
- ISBN:
- 9780999460207
- 099946020X
- OCLC:
- 1045637085
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