{"product_id":"camp-olvido-lawrence-coates-9781881163572","title":"Camp Olvido: A Novella","description":"Fiction. California Interest. In the California heartland in 1932, at a migrant labor camp whose very name means forgotten, a child's sudden illness leads to tensions between workers wishing to break camp and the land barons enforcing their contracts. Into this dispute Esteban Alas--contrabandista and self- styled businessman--is reluctantly drawn as a mediator, until an act of violence forces him into a more tragic role.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e CAMP OLVIDO is everything a novella should be--intense as it is resonant, propulsive as it is deep--but, even more than a shining example of the form, it is simply a great story. I haven't read anything as powerful about pickers and California since I read John Steinbeck. Lawrence Coates writes with every bit as much tenderness and compassion, but this moving novella--full of characters I won't forget and images I can't--is cut with a clear-eyed, brutal honesty that gives it a hard-won wisdom and beauty all its own.--Josh Weil\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A] stunning exploration of one man's bold actions and their consequences. Gorgeously written, the novella shows the dark side of California's prosperity, with violence and, unexpectedly, elements of the divine. A superb addition to a distinguished series.--Cary Holladay\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI have rarely read a novella so rich, with the moral complexities of Melville's \u003cem\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/em\u003e and the social and visual acuity of a film like Bu uel's \u003cem\u003eLos olvidados\u003c\/em\u003e... Read CAMP OLVIDO, a masterful work of fiction, as provocative as it is jaw-dropping in its beauty.--Wendell Mayo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In CAMP OLVIDO, Lawrence Coates paints a sensual and humane picture of life and death in a depression-era work camp peopled by Latino fieldworkers... showing not only the sorrow of endemic poverty and powerlessness but the love and good humor of a community that can endure.--Bonnie Jo Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lawrence Coates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1881163571\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781881163572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Miami University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2015 pg. 82","brand":"Lawrence Coates","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939056845055,"sku":"9781881163572","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e41ff960-7f5e-4dfa-9934-b9ed214ddf0b.jpg?v=1681439240","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/camp-olvido-lawrence-coates-9781881163572","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}