BLAKE, JAMES CARLOS - The Friends of Pancho Villa![]() New York, NY: Berkley Trade, 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0425153045. Trade PB. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. This trade paperback book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The paperback book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a square of rubbing to the front endpaper where a sticker was removed. "Although Blake wrote sporadically from his teens until his thirties, it was not until the early 1980s, while again living in Miami, that he began to write with purpose, and over the next few years he published a number of short stories in a variety of literary journals. In 1995 he published his first novel, The Pistoleer, an account of the life and times of the infamous Texas outlaw, John Wesley Hardin. Structured as a sequence of first-person narratives—each of the dozens of chapters told by a different character—the novel was hailed as “an achievement by any standards, but as a first novel is simply astounding. ” It was a finalist for the 1995 Best Novel of the West award from the Western Writers of America. Despite its “western” setting, it was recognized as a significant literary work presenting not only the story of the title character, but also, through its vast array of narrators, a cultural mosaic of the South in the era of Reconstruction" (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good . USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 22 | £UK 18.75 | JP¥ 3564] Book number 45951is offered by:
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