{"product_id":"distant-music-two-novels-the-gunnysack-castle-and-the-death-of-mae-ramos-paperback-softback-9780972256193","title":"Distant Music; Two Novels: the Gunnysack Castle and the Death of Mae Ramos (Paperback \/ softback) 9780972256193","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDistant Music\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTwo Novels: the Gunnysack Castle and the Death of Mae Ramos\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJulian Silva (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780972256193\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 January 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e552 pages\u003cbr\u003e22 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.525 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTwo discretely shaped yet interdependent narratives creating a family saga from the viewpoints of both maternal and paternal lines (a difficult and rarely successful strategy for fiction) comprise this large and capacious novel. \u003cem\u003eDistant Music\u003c\/em\u003e begins in the nineteenth-century and extends well into the twentieth, a diptych retelling the story of the Woods and Ramos families and their descents in rough-and-tumble California. In crisp, succinct, and often elegant prose, rich in deftly selected detail, Julian Silva celebrates not only the resilience of men and women confronted with failure but--even more important--he adumbrates the compromised morality of their achievement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Gunnysack Castle\u003c\/em\u003e was first published by Ohio University Press in 1983. A study of the character of Belle Bettencourt was published by \u003cem\u003eCosmopolitan Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e in March 1964.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second section of The Death of Mae Ramos, \"\"Vasco and the Other,\"\" was originally published in 1979 under a different title and in a slightly different form in the University of Colorado's Writer's Forum 6.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor's Preface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Gunnysack Castle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Death of Mae Ramos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Tagus Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52584780890392,"sku":"9780972256193","price":22.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/distant-music-two-novels-the-gunnysack-castle-and-the-death-of-mae-ramos-paperback-softback-9780972256193","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}