Norris Frank - The Octopus A Story Of California - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Like the tentacles of an octopus the tracks of the railroad reached out across California as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, The Octopus is a stunning novel of the waning days of the frontier West. To the tough - minded and self - reliant farmers the monopolistic land - grabbing railroad represented everything they despised: consolidation organization conformity. But Norris idealizes no one in this epic depiction of the volatile situation for the farmers themselves ruthlessly exploited the land and in their hunger for larger holdings they resorted to the same tactics used by the railroad: subversion coercion and outright violence. In his introduction Kevin Starr discusses Norris's debt to Zola for the novel's extraordinary sweep scale and abundance of characters and details.
Title: The Octopus A Story Of California
Author(s): Norris Frank
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780140187700
Pages: 688 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/1994
Series: The Epic of the Wheat
Category: Classic Fiction