Aransas: A Novel

by Stephen Harrigan

Overview

A critically acclaimed debut novel first published in 1980, Aransas recounts a young man’s attempt to find his place in the world as he navigates the moral dilemma of training an “exquisitely conscious being” to perform in a seaside dolphin circus.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292758148
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Stephen Harrigan is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including the award—winning novels The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton, the critically acclaimed essay collection The Eye of the Mammoth, and Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he is a writer—at—large for Texas Monthly and a faculty fellow at the University of Texas’s Michener Center for Writers.

Table of Contents

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• Afterword