Redeye [electronic resource] : A Western

Clyde Edgerton1995

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" ""A Hollywood pitchman might call REDEYE Eudora Welty meets Mark Twain. An admirer of good fiction might say that Clyde Edgerton has combined structure, character, and style to create a small gem of a novel.""--New York Times Book Review. ; This New York Times Notable Book is a quirky tale of the Old West from the author of The Bible Salesman, ""a master of comic timing"" (Richmond Times-Dispatch). ""A Hollywood pitchman might call Redeye Eudora Welty meets Mark Twain,"" says the New York Times Book Review about Clyde Edgerton's ""small gem of a novel,"" a witty adventure set on the nineteenth-century frontier. ""A rollicking tale . . . The cliff dwellings of southwest Colorado attract a motley crew of explorers in 1892, each with a personal agenda. Abel Merriwether, a local rancher and amateur archaeologist, wants to explore and protect the site; Andrew Collier, an Englishman, wants to write about it; Billy Blankenship, a local businessman, wants to develop it ...