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AND THE DESERT SHALL BLOSSOM
by Barber, Phyllis
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0874803632
- ISBN 13
- 9780874803631
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Salt Lake City, UT: Univ of Utah, 1991. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Linen boards w/gilt spine letter/Fine. DJ/VG w/ closed tears to upper spine edge. 1988 First Prize winner of the Utah Arts Council Literary Competition. Historical novel set in the early 1930s of the Great Depression, of the personal struggles of a young Mormon family and the building of the Hoover Dam. Story of how Esther and Alfred Jensen, with their growing young family, leave Brigham City, Utah for promise of steady employment for the ramshackle company town on the Colorado River housing dam construction laborers. A chronicle of dreams of an economically stressed family, discordant political intrigue, engineering challenges, and labor strikes.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012212
- Title
- AND THE DESERT SHALL BLOSSOM
- Author
- Barber, Phyllis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0874803632
- ISBN 13
- 9780874803631
- Publisher
- Univ of Utah
- Place of Publication
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Fiction/Historical Novel/Mormon/Hoover Dam/Great Depression
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