Robert Flynn, Author . Texas Christian Univ. $24.50 (354p) ISBN 978-0-87565-244-3
Fractured family relationships are as tangled and dangerous as a ball of barbed wire in this folksy western novel by Spur Award– winner Flynn (The Devils Tiger; Wanderer Springs; etc.). This is certainly not a typical western; it reads more...
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Robert Flynn, Author Texas Christian University Press $22.5 (340p) ISBN 978-0-87565-071-5
When Jessie Tooley finally dies, Will Callaghan knows he has to go back for the funeral in Wanderer Springs, a tiny Texas town that was ""born beside the railroad and died beside the interstate,'' which passed around it. In this perfectly pitched,...
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Robert Flynn, Author Texas Christian University Press $22.5 (232p) ISBN 978-0-87565-144-6
The characters in Flynn's second short-story collection often find themselves confronting a system that has forgotten them, leaving them alone in a world of ``hyenas'' that prey on the helpless. Telling their stories with inconsistent results, Flynn
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Robert Flynn, Author Baskerville Publishers $21 (363p) ISBN 978-1-880909-21-8
Few issues in American history are as likely to cause knee-jerk reactions as the Vietnam War. Some see it as an immoral and unpopular conflict; others argue that it was winnable but that our military tactics were misguided. Flynn's ( North to...
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Robert Flynn, Author Corona Publishing Co. $7.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-931722-57-8
The short fiction of Texan novelist Flynn (North to Yesterday is spare and incisive. He writes of peopleAmericans in rural settings or in Vietnamwhose lives are affirmed through endurance. In this anthology, the opening story, ""The Midnight Clear,''
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Robert Flynn, Author Texas A&M University Press $24.95 (139p) ISBN 978-0-89096-407-1
Flynn, novelist ( Wanderer Springs ) and ex-Marine, spent two months of 1971 in Vietnam as a correspondent. These five previously unpublished essays investigate so-called ``pacification'' teams--mixed units of American Marines and Vietnamese Popular
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Robert Flynn, Author, Dan Klepper, Author, Dan Klepper, Joint Author Texas Christian University Press $24.5 (362p) ISBN 978-0-87565-224-5
Texas author Flynn (Wanderer Springs) coauthors this novel with the late Dan Klepper, but even their combined efforts cannot rescue this lukewarm muddle of international brinkmanship, redneck militia action and man-eating tiger adventure from...
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A. C. Greene, Author, Laura Furman, Author, Robert Flynn, Author . Wings Press $16.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-930324-57-5
The Texas landscape, famous both for its mythic extent and the epic scale on which it has been despoiled, is the subject of this appealing but uneven protest anthology of environmentalist writings by associates of the Texas Institute of Letters....
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