PEPLKendra
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Perth East Public Library
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Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy...
"The author skewers attitudes toward Blacks, women and Native Americans in this parody against the usual stereotypes of the American Wild West and General Custer. There are elements of fantasy and a weak ending that I felt detracted from this tale..."
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"The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a...
