{"product_id":"dancing-bear-isbn-9780394725765","title":"Dancing Bear","description":"\u003ci\u003eDetective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and now Sarah Weddington, stirring painful memoires and offering him his first case since he abandoned his private practice and took a job marking time on the night shift for Haliburton Security. The case seems almost too easy, hardly worth the large fee, just to satisfy this old woman's curiosity. But things are soon exploding all over the place and Milo is turning up grenades, machine guns, a kilo of marijuana and a bag of coke  . . . and suddenly Milo is on the run.\"A taut, stirring, highly original thriller.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Crumley works with fever on the brow, and the most lyrical and true English sentences I've seen lately. \u003ci\u003eDancing Bear\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonder of compression, truth and wisdom.\" --Barry Hannah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Top-notch . . . an imaginative narrative sense, chaotic and even manic, but violently dramatic . . . excitingly new.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A clear triumph.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDancing Bear\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful novel by a writer of extraodinary power who mixes humor with blood, environmental issues with cocaine jangles and post-coital blues, the Dancing Bear Wilderness Area of Montana with peppermint schnapps and hopelessness.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe El Paso Herald Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Extremely well-written.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you like your detective fiction tough and tenacious you will love James Crumely. . . . No one does it better.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Houston Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"James Crumley is a first-rate American writer.... pyrotechnically entertaining, sexy, compassionate.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003eJames Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas, and spent most of his childhood in South Texas. After serving three years in the U.S. Army and completing college degrees in history (BA, Texas College of Arts and Industries) and creative writing (MFA, University of Iowa), he joined the English faculty at the University of Montana at Missoula. He was also a visiting professor at a number of other institutions around the country, including the University of Texas at El Paso, Colorado State University, Reed College, and Carnegie-Mellon. His works include a novel of Vietnam, \u003ci\u003eOne to Count Cadence, \u003c\/i\u003eand seven detective novels: \u003ci\u003eThe Wrong Case\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Good Kiss\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDancing Bear\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Tree Duck\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBordersnakes,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Final Country\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Right Madness\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in Missoula in 2008.","brand":"Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300934734053,"sku":"NP9780394725765","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780394725765.jpg?v=1767724452","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/dancing-bear-isbn-9780394725765","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}