{"product_id":"the-ford-paperback","title":"The Ford - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Austin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Walton\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Austin's 1917 novel illuminates one of the crucial issues in California history-the usurpation of water from the Owens Valley. Ranging from the eastern Sierra to the financial district in San Francisco, the plot portrays the frenzied speculation in land and resources, labor protests, and feminist organizing of the time, exemplified in the successful efforts of an independent young woman to buy back her family's Owens Valley ranch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeminist to the core, . . . over the years Mary Austin produced some skilled and interesting fiction. . . . Her evocative poetic portraits of California and the Southwest . . . are one and all tours de force: prose poems of vision and grace, in which perception, intuition, and mystical insight are realized and presented through metaphor, cadenced language, and exquisite precision of detail.--Kevin Starr, \u003ci\u003eInventing the Dream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Austin\u003c\/b\u003e (1868-1934) came to California in 1887 to homestead with her family in Kern County, in the Great Central Valley. She is the author of many novels, essays, and story collections. \u003cb\u003eJohn Walton\u003c\/b\u003e, the author of \u003ci\u003eWestern Times and Water Wars\u003c\/i\u003e (California 1992), is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 440\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723844620351,"sku":"9780520207578","price":52.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f450f287c1b09c0499828b537c1fb2a1.webp?v=1765100580","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ford-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}