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100 1 $aScali, Dominique,$eauthor.
240 10 $aÀ la recherche de New Babylon.$lEnglish
245 10 $aIn search of New Babylon /$ca novel by Dominique Scali ; translated by W. Donald Wilson.
264 1 $aVancouver, British Columbia, Canada :$bTalonbooks,$c[2017]
264 4 $c©2017
300 $a312 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aTranslation of: À la recherche de New Babylon.
520 $a"The wily characters in this monumental western novel captivate and intrigue as they seek the American dream in a lawless town in the 1860s. Reverend Aaron is found lying unconscious on the dusty trail to a family farm somewhere in southern Utah. His hands have been severed at the wrists. On the body are only a few bibles and sermons. Is he a preacher or a thief? It's impossible to say who this stranger might be without understanding those who have brought him to this desert town: Charles Teasdale, a saloon pugilist who hangs himself despite having escaped the noose nine times; Pearl Guthrie, a young saloon girl who marries the same man thirty times over; Russian Bill, a Russian aristocrat turned rustler after killing a hundred innocent men; an assortment of mercenaries who live on the fringe of mining towns in the American Southwest, where anything and everything is available, except what you are looking for. All the main characters in this novel are invented, except one. All the towns are real, except for New Babylon. But if such a place were to be imagined, it would be a Wild West town where gunfights are fair play and the law bans only the lawman. It is a perilous place, where the beauty of the desert landscape takes your breath away with the same breathtaking power as an open blade and a gash to the throat. In this atmospheric, post Cormac McCarthy western novel, four disparate characters criss-cross the desert in pursuit of an impossible ideal. In In Search of New Babylon each character discovers their own true worth and shows that we must construct the life--or the town--of which we dream."--$cProvided by publisher.
546 $aTranslated from the French.
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651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y1860-1890$vFiction.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xSocial life and customs$y19th century$vFiction.
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655 7 $aWestern fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01726776
655 7 $aWestern stories.$2gsafd
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700 1 $aWilson, W. Donald,$d1938-$etranslator.
776 1 $aScali, Dominique.$sÀ la recherche de New Babylon. English.$tIn search of New Babylon.$w(CaOONL)20169077411
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938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$nBK0019585747
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