{"product_id":"camp-olvido-a-novella-9781881163572","title":"Camp Olvido: A Novella","description":"Fiction. California Interest. In the California heartland in 1932, at a migrant labor camp whose very name means forgotten, a child's sudden illness leads to tensions between workers wishing to break camp and the land barons enforcing their contracts. Into this dispute Esteban Alas--contrabandista and self- styled businessman--is reluctantly drawn as a mediator, until an act of violence forces him into a more tragic role. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"CAMP OLVIDO is everything a novella should be--intense as it is resonant, propulsive as it is deep--but, even more than a shining example of the form, it is simply a great story. I haven't read anything as powerful about pickers and California since I read John Steinbeck. Lawrence Coates writes with every bit as much tenderness and compassion, but this moving novella--full of characters I won't forget and images I can't--is cut with a clear-eyed, brutal honesty that gives it a hard-won wisdom and beauty all its own.\"--Josh Weil \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] stunning exploration of one man's bold actions and their consequences. Gorgeously written, the novella shows the dark side of California's prosperity, with violence and, unexpectedly, elements of the divine. A superb addition to a distinguished series.\"--Cary Holladay \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I have rarely read a novella so rich, with the moral complexities of Melville's \u003cem\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/em\u003e and the social and visual acuity of a film like Buñuel's \u003cem\u003eLos olvidados\u003c\/em\u003e... Read CAMP OLVIDO, a masterful work of fiction, as provocative as it is jaw-dropping in its beauty.\"--Wendell Mayo \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In CAMP OLVIDO, Lawrence Coates paints a sensual and humane picture of life and death in a depression-era work camp peopled by Latino fieldworkers... showing not only the sorrow of endemic poverty and powerlessness but the love and good humor of a community that can endure.\"--Bonnie Jo Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Miami University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781881163572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2015 pg. 82\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lawrence Coates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52181322956981,"sku":"9781881163572","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8b143aef-ba21-4800-a519-28a3a82af5bd.jpg?v=1768922695","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/camp-olvido-a-novella-9781881163572","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}