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By the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling novels The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton, here is the definitive, career-spanning collection of nonfiction from one of America's leading writers, Stephen Harrigan.
List of contents
- Foreword by Nicholas Lemann
- Part One: Music in the Desert
- Morning Light
- On the Edge
- The Secret Life of the Beach
- Going into the Desert
- Isla del Padre
- "The Tiger Is God"
- The Bay
- Swamp Thing
- The Silver Kings
- Part Two: Highways and Jungle Paths
- The Roof of Eden
- Feeling Flush
- The Anger of Achilles
- Rock and Sky
- The Little Man's Road
- My Igloo
- A Secret Door
- Part Three: The Shadow of History
- The Temple of Destiny
- The Man Nobody Knows
- Comanche Midnight
- Wolf House
- The Last Days of David Crockett
- Taking Care of Lonesome Dove
- His Fostering Hand
- The Eye of the Mammoth
- A Troublous Life
- Part Four: Where Is My Home?
- What Texas Means to Me
- The Soul of Treaty Oak
- Wish I Were There
- The Eyesore
- The Golden Age of Austin
- Texanic!
- Fade In, Fade Out
- Where Is My Home?
- Off Course
- Acknowledgments
About the author
Stephen Harrigan is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, among them the critically acclaimed and best-selling novel The Gates of the Alamo, and two previous collections of essays, A Natural State and Comanche Midnight. His most recent novel, Remember Ben Clayton, won the Jesse H. Jones award for best work of fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters and the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. He is a longtime writer for Texas Monthly, and has contributed articles and essays to a wide variety of other magazines. Harrigan is also an award-winning screenwriter who has written many movies for television.
Summary
By the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling novels The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton, here is the definitive, career-spanning collection of nonfiction from one of America’s leading writers, Stephen Harrigan.
