Son of the Gamblin' Man: The Youth of an Artist - Softcover

Sandoz, Mari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080325833X ISBN 13: 9780803258334

Publisher: Bison Books, 1976

Synopsis

The story tells of the gambler and townsite promoter who founded Cozad, Nebraska, and of his family, particularly his younger son, [who] became a world-famous artist and teacher known as 'Robert Henri.' This tale is essentially Robert's story, the story of a sensitive talented boy growing up in the midst of frontier violence. But it is also the story of the ambitious promoter and of frontier people fighting hunger, cold, blizzards, drouths, grasshoppers, prairie fires, and ruthless cattlemen. . . .

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Review:

"The book's characters are all drawn from life and given their actual names; the events can be documented. The factual framework makes this unusual fiction and gives the tale a pattern most novelists would have altered to their purposes. But Miss Sandoz had her own purpose and she has achieved it splendidly by telling the story the way it happened."—Hal Borland, Saturday Review

(Hal Borland Saturday Review)

"Excellent historical fiction. . . . Deeply interesting and decidedly worth while. Moreover, it adds another cubit to our understanding of the flowering of America's heartland, a story of never-ending fascination."—Victor P. Haas, New York Times Book Review

(Victor P. Haas New York Times Book Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 080325833X
• ISBN 13: 9780803258334
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 333