{"product_id":"rabbit-boss-isbn-9780679726210","title":"Rabbit Boss","description":"\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE \u003ci\u003eSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE’S\u003c\/i\u003e 100 GREATEST WESTERN NOVELS \u003c\/b\u003e• From the author of the first annual California Classics Litquake Barbary Coast Award, comes the story of four generations of the Washo in Nevada and Eastern California—a story of dreams, dying, the loss of power, death, and apotheosis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rabbit Boss deserves to become an American classic. A great novel, spanning a century in the life and death of an Indian tribe, told with epic perspective and infinite compassion.\" \u003ci\u003e—National Observer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The Indian experience of the last 120 years of a size and scope that is awesome. Sanchez is a man of tremendous vision.” —Robert Kirsch\u003ci\u003e, Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRabbit Boss\u003c\/i\u003e is about the doomed hunter Gayabuc, whose first sight of the white man is his witness to the great disaster of the Donner Party in 1846. The time of Gayabuc's son, Captain Rex, is set against the gold and silver filled mountains of the Sierra. Hallelujah Bob, the surviving son of Captain Rex, tries to live the sacred life on the shores of Lake Tahoe, but he is isolated from his past and doomed to an alien future. It is against a landscape of despair that Joe Birdsong inherits the once honored position of Rabbit Boss, beginning his astounding flight back through time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a landmark work of twentieth-century American literature, a novel in which the tragic experience of the American Indian is made real and profoundly moving.Rabbit Boss is a landmark work of twentieth-century American literature. A novel of dreams dying, the loss of power, the rebirth of the spirit, it is the most brilliant fictional evocation of the American West ever written. Powerful and exalting, Rabbit Boss tells the story of four generations of Washo in the California and Nevada Sierra.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Indian experience of the last 120 years...Rabbit Boss is of a size and scope that is awesome. Sanchez is a man of tremendous vision.\" -- Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rabbit Boss deserves to become an American classic. A great novel, spanning a century in the life and death of an Indian tribe, told with epic perspective and infinite compassion.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-- National Observer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Etched in unforgettable prose...Sanchez is to be congratulated.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-- Vine Deloria, Jr., author of Custer Died For Your SinsThomas Sanchez lived for many years in Key West, Mallorca, and Paris, where the French Republic awarded him the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. He currently resides in Key West. He is the author of \u003cb\u003eKing Bongo\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003cb\u003e Mile Zero\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDay\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eof the Bees\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eZoot-Suit Murders\u003c\/b\u003e and\u003cb\u003e Rabbit Boss\u003c\/b\u003e, which was named by the\u003ci\u003e San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the most important books of the twentieth century.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304897892581,"sku":"NP9780679726210","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679726210.jpg?v=1767735322","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/rabbit-boss-isbn-9780679726210","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}