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Murders at Moon Dance
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Murders at Moon Dance Unknown - 1993

by Guthrie Jr., A. B


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At a difficult and sad time in his family life, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., turned for surcease to reading western and whodunit novels. In his autobiography, The Blue Hen's Chick (also a Bison Book), he touches on that moment when he realized he could write as well as or better than the published plot-spinners. What about a mystery and cow-country myth in combination? he mused, So far as I could recall, the two had never been blended. All right. I'd blend them.

The result was his first novel, Murders at Moon Dance, appearing in 1943. It was an audacious debut with bold characterizations and a sharply etched, atmospheric setting The dusty town of Moon Dance, smacked down between barren mountains and a badland named the Freezeout, would also be a back-drop for The Big It and Other Stories (1960). In Guthrie's hand, raw vitality replaces the woodenness of much writing in the genre, and unexpected grace notes in the verbal rhythms suggest the author of The Big Sky (1947) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Way West (1949).

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  • Title Murders at Moon Dance
  • Author Guthrie Jr., A. B
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition 1st Thus
  • Pages 184
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.
  • Date 1993-04
  • ISBN 9780803221505

About the author

Introducing Murders at Moon Dance is the celebrated Montana writer William Kittredge, the author of such books as We Are Not in This Together (1984), Owning It All (1990), and Hole in the Sly (1992).
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Murders at Moon Dance
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Murders at Moon Dance

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University of Nebraska Press, 4/1/1993 12:00:01 AM. hardcover. Very Good. 0.7000 in x 7.9000 in x 5.2000 in. Hardback. No dust jacket. Cover edges and corners in good shape. Spine is tight. Pages are clean, no markings, notes or stains. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.
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