The Ford

by Mary Hunter Austin

Book Overview

Mary Austin's 1917 novel illuminates one of the crucial issues in California history-the usurpation of water from the Owens Valley. Ranging from the eastern Sierra to the financial district in San... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1015728871
• ISBN13: 9781015728875
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Legare Street Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

triply wonderful work

Our college comp lit professor used to say that a work of fiction will have one main emphasis out of these three: plot, characterization, theme. The Ford, however, has all three aspects equally strong. In it, Mary Austin tells a riveting story, reveals keen observational and descriptive powers vis a vis the many varieties of humankind (noble and less so), and educates the reader in Western land use and water rights while she's at it. A more complete novel is hard to find. I loved it.