The ox-bow incident
(2004, original release: 2001)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/CLARK,W
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Modern Library, [2004]
©2004
©2004
DESCRIPTION
xxi, 247 pages ; 18 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0812972589 (pbk.) :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: New York : Modern Library, 2001
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. As Wallace Stegner writes, [Clark's] theme was civilization, and he recorded, indelibly, its first steps in a new country