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Picket Line: The Lost Novella
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This Is The Best Of A Magnificent WriterS Magnificent Books.Tim OBrien, Author Of The Things They Carriedthe First Major Release In Nearly A Decade From The Late, BestSelling Elmore LeonardThe Greatest Crime Writer Of Our Time, Perhaps Ever! (New York Times Book Review): Picket Line Is The NeverBeforePublished, Prescient Story Of A Budding Agricultural Strike In Texas, The Racial Tension Brewing In The Fields, And What Happens When Brutality From The Man Goes Unchecked.If A Man Comes Out Of The Field And Goes On The Picket Line, Even For One Day, HeLl Never Be The Same...Chino And Paco Rojas Seem WellMannered, At Least For Chicanos, To The White Cops That Pull Them Over For Littering On The Long Drive From California To Trinity, Texas. So WellMannered, In Fact, That Captain Frank Mckellan Lets Them Off With A Warning And Recommends Them A Job At Stanzik Farms, The Largest Independent Melon Grower In The Area.But Chino And Paco DidnT Drive All This Way For Work. Instead, Chino Is Looking For A Mysterious Man, Vincent Mora, Whose New Valley Agricultural Workers Association Is Causing A Scene Striking Against The Farm Owners.StanzikS Fields And MoraS Union Bring Together A Cast Of Unlikely Characters: Connie Chavez, A Former Picker And Blossoming Revolutionary Who Leads With A Bullhorn And A Fearless Mouth; Bud Davis, A White Xavier University Student Working For Spending Money; Harold Ritchie, A Local MarineTurnedCop; Luis Tamez, A Striker Whose Grandson Served With Harold In Vietnam; And Many More, Including The Pragmatic Chino, Who Finds Himself Pulled Irrevocably Into The Cause. Some Are Neighbors, Others Just Passing Through. Some Know Each Other Well, Or At Least Thought They DidBefore The Picket Line.This NeverBeforePublished Gem From Master Storyteller Elmore Leonard Describes The Early Days Of An Unprecedented Farmers Movement; The Complex Cast Of Chicanos, Anglos, And Migrants That Impact The Union; And The Careful Balance Of Passion, Patience, And Pure, Stupid Guts That It Takes To Hold The Line.
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