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THE HOOKMEN
by Hillmer, Timothy
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0684813866
- ISBN 13
- 9780684813868
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Scribner Paperback/Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edtion, 1st Printing. . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Recipient of the Colorado Fiction Award among other honors. Debut novel centering around river rescue crew ("hookmen") of the Forest Service along Southern California's rugged Kern River. Story of 19 year-old Roy Cruz's initiation into the grim profession of retrieving the drowned from their watery graves with metal hooks, a job young Cruz takes on to make ends meet while minding his alcoholic father. Cruz, his instructor Crawdad, and a former friend of Crawdad by the name of Walker ride down the treacherous upper Kern ... Descriptions of the dynamics between the three men, the rapids and the rescues are excellent, as is the portrait of Cruz's ailing father.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008951
- Title
- THE HOOKMEN
- Author
- Hillmer, Timothy
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edtion, 1st Printing.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0684813866
- ISBN 13
- 9780684813868
- Publisher
- Scribner Paperback/Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Fiction/Novel/Kern River Valley/Park Rangers
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- First Edition
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