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The Octopus: A Story of California - Frank Norris, Kevin Starr
The Octopus: A Story of California
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Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, this is the story of the waning days of the frontier West.
Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, this is the story of the waning days of the frontier West.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780140187700 (0140187707)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 688
Edition language: English
Series: The Epic of the Wheat (#1)
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This book merits three stars based on historical interest alone. It's not Norris's best writing by a long shot, that honor belonging to "McTeague" (in this writer's never-humble opinion), and it's further evidence if any was needed that the loss to American letters that Norris's death at 32 was imme...
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