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Beyond the great snow mountains
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- ISBN: 9780553898910 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0553898914 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource. - Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2005.
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| General Note: | Description based on online resource; title from publisher's website (OverDrive, Jan. 11, 2013). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | By the waters of San Tadeo -- Meeting at Falmouth -- Roundup in Texas -- Sideshow champion -- Crash landing -- Under the hanging wall -- Coast patrol -- The gravel pit -- The money punch -- Beyond the Great Snow Mountains -- A note on the dedication. |
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| Genre: | War stories. Mystery fiction. Love stories. Short stories. Electronic books. Fiction. |
Electronic resources
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Monthly Selections - #1 April 1999
Much published and widely read, Louis L'Amour is an American literary legend. He died in 1988, leaving 90 published novels, 20 short-story collections, and a handful of nonfiction. He also left plenty of unpublished material, including the tales that make up this collection, the first of four new anthologies scheduled by Bantam. In addition, daughter Angelique L'Amour is currently at work on her father's biography. According to her, these 10 yarns were based on the author's own experiences traveling across half the world or working as a miner, a professional boxer, or any of a dozen other things he did after leaving home at age 15. And, like all L'Amour tales, they are written in a clear, flowing style, peopled by sharply defined characters, and contain plenty of action. Among the highlights are "Under the Hanging Wall," which takes place in a sweltering, out-of-the-way western mining town, and "The Money Punch," a solid boxing story. All together, these tales show a distinctly different but equally intriguing side of Louis L'Amour. ((Reviewed April 1, 1999)) Copyright 2000 Booklist Reviews - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 1999 March #1
Superb stylist L'Amour returns (End of the Drive, 1997, etc.), albeit posthumously, with ten stories never seen before in book form and narrated in his usual hard-edged, close-cropped sentences, jutting up from under fierce blue skies. This is the first of four collections of L'Amour material expected from Bantam, edited by his daughter Angelique, featuring an eclectic mix of early historicals and adventure stories set in China, on the high seas, and in the boxing ring, all drawing from the author's exploits as a carnival barker and from his mysterious and sundry travels. During this period, L'Amour was trying to break away from being a writer only of westerns. Also included is something of an update on Angelique's progress with her father's biography: i.e., a stunningly varied list of her father's acquaintances from around the world whom she'd like to contact for her research. Meanwhile, in the title story here, a missionary's daughter who crashes in northern Asia during the early years of the Sino-Japanese War is taken captive by a nomadic leader and kept as his wife for 15 years, until his death. When a plane lands, she must choose between taking her teenaged son back to civilization or leaving him alone with the nomads. In ``By the Waters of San Tadeo,'' set on the southern coast of Chile, Julie Marrat, whose father has just perished, is trapped in San Esteban, a gold field surrounded by impassable mountains, with only one inlet available for anyone s escape. ``Meeting at Falmouth,'' a historical, takes place in January 1794 during a dreadful Atlantic storm: ``Volleys of rain rattled along the cobblestones like a scattering of broken teeth.'' In this a notorious American, unnamed until the last paragraph, helps Talleyrand flee to America. A master storyteller only whets the appetite for his next three volumes. Copyright 1999 Kirkus Reviews - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 1999 February #1
Ten stories that have never before appeared in book form. Copyright 1999 Library Journal Reviews - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1999 March #2
Written in the 1940s and '50s, the 10 stories in this collection, none previously published in book form, come complete with curvy Hopper-like heroines "shaped to please" whose "eyes you could lose yourself in." The heroes boxers, detectives and gunslinging cowboys sleuth, shoot and slug their way valiantly through plots that seem like dress rehearsals for the full-blown L'Amour novels. Surprisingly, there is just one true western, a melodramatic horse opera loaded with cattle rustlers, gunfighters and hayseed dialogue. "Meeting at Falmouth," an unconvincing historical fiction, imagines a proud and tragic Benedict Arnold on a rainy night in 1794. "The Money Punch" and "Sideshow Champion" make prizefighting (an early occupation of L'Amour's) the theater for drama, suspense and moral conflict as ambition calls the loyalty and honesty of two young boxers into question. The collection's most successful story, "Under the Hanging Wall," is a clever whodunit with a chiseled gumshoe investigating a murder in a California mining town. Smart foreshadowing and snappy plotting reveal L'Amour to be a skilled mystery writer. Though not sophisticated psychologically, L'Amour's brassy women and dusty men keep the action of these cinematic stories hot. Entertaining and of interest to the devotees of L'Amour's 100-plus books, these adventure tales offer their share of the high drama L'Amour is famous for. Three more collections of yet-unpublished work will follow. (May) FYI: Louis L'Amour, who wrote 90 novels, was the only novelist to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. There are more than 260 million copies of his books in print. Copyright 1999 Publishers Weekly Reviews
