Oakley Hall (1920–2008)
Autore di Warlock
Sull'Autore
He is the author of more than twenty works of fiction, including The Downhill Racers, Warlock, The Bad Lands & Separations. For twenty years, he was professor English & director of programs in writing at the University of California at Irvine. He is also the director of the Squaw Valley Writing mostra altro Program. In 1998, he received a PEN center USA West Award of Honor for a lifetime of literary achievement. He lives in San Francisco. (Publisher Provided) Author Oakley M. Hall was born in San Diego in 1920. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. He joined the Marines and served in the Pacific during World War II. Taking advantage of the G. I. Bill after the war, he studied in Europe and received a Masters of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He founded the creative writing program at the University of California at Irvine and co-founded the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. He wrote the Ambrose Bierce Mystery series and his best known novels are Downhill Racers and Warlock. He died of kidney disease and cancer on May 13, 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo by Barbara Hall
Serie
Opere di Oakley Hall
How Fiction Works: The Last Word on Writing Fiction, from Basics to the Fine Points (2001) 109 copie
The Western: Four Classic Novels of the 1940s & 50s (LOA #331): The Ox-Bow Incident / Shane / The Searchers / Warlock… (2020) — Collaboratore — 108 copie
Murder City 5 copie
The Pleasure Garden 2 copie
Au turf 2 copie
Hall Oakley 1 copia
The downhill racers 1 copia
Opere correlate
TriQuarterly 48: Western Stories — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Hall, Oakley Maxwell
- Altri nomi
- Hall, O.M. (pen name)
Manor, Jason (pen name)
Hall, Oakley - Data di nascita
- 1920-07-01
- Data di morte
- 2008-05-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- San Diego, California, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Nevada City, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- San Diego, California, USA
- Istruzione
- University of California, Berkeley
University of Iowa (MFA|English) - Attività lavorative
- professor
novelist - Relazioni
- Hall, Sands (daughter)
- Organizzazioni
- University of California, Irvine
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 31
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 1,896
- Popolarità
- #13,578
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 49
- ISBN
- 65
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 2
Since Warlock is not deemed substantial enough to deserve its own county seat, and the nearest court being a day's ride away in Bright's City - the law of the land is somewhat hamstrung, amounting to a single jail in a ramshackle hut where the lengthening deputies' names scratched into the wall show the monotonous loss of life and cost of the power struggle.
In an attempt to take matters into their own hands, the inhabitants create a citizen's committee which decides to hire a cultish, golden gunned warden by the name of Clay Blaisedell, in order to gain their own standing in Warlock and kick back at the outlander band of troublemakers and their notorious leader, Abe McGowan.
The path of Oakley Hall's story is far from simple. Truth, morality and honour become convoluted and circumspect in the melting pot of power, righteousness a pinball ricocheting against the countless variables: wonts, desires and limitations of his dustbowl denizens.
“Is not the history of the world no more than a record of violence and death cut in stone? It is a terrible, lonely, loveless thing to know it, and see—as I realize now the doctor saw before me—that the only justification is in the attempt, not in the achievement, for there is no achievement; to know that each day may dawn fair or fairer than the last, and end as horribly wretched or more. Can those things that drive men to their ends be ever stilled, or will they only thrive and grow and yet more hideously clash one against the other so long as man himself is not stilled? Can I look out at these cold stars in this black sky and believe in my heart of hearts that it was this sky that hung over Bethlehem, and that a star such as these stars glittered there to raise men’s hearts to false hopes forever?”
Hall pens the complexity of life expertly and the reader, like his characters, become embroiled in and sullied by his prose. Warlock is a highly crafted and memorable tale that is well worth a read.… (altro)