Oakley Hall: 7 books

Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and...

The legendary lost crime novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Oakley Hall, instructor of Ann Rice, Amy Tan, Richard Ford, and Michael Chabon, who calls SO MANY DOORS "Beautiful, powerful, even masterful." It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer...

The Sweeping Novel of a Twentieth-Century California Life Love and War in California tells the story, through the eyes of Payton Daltrey, of the last sixty years of an evolving America. The award-winning author Oakley Hall begins his newest work in 1940s San Diego, where his endearing, wide-eyed...

It’s 1883 in Johnson County, in the old Dakota Territory—a rugged, wide-open landscape of rolling, red earth, prairie, and cattle as far as the eye can see. But the land is closing, the “Beef Bonanza” is ending, and the free-range cattlemen are stuck watching a way of life disappear in a blaze...

Écrire avec précision, toucher les sens, le choix des mots, réussir les dialogues...A travers intrigues, personnages, choix des mots, voix et styles, l'auteur nous démonte pièce par pièce l'architecture d'histoires romanesques. Rien que la lecture de cet ouvrage donne d'emblée l'impression qu'on...

Travail du style, symboles et métaphores, flash-back, processus de création.Cet ouvrage vous aidera à stimuler votre créativité grâce à une large gamme de techniques. Le succès de la méthode a été prouvé aux Etats-Unis.On y découvrira également de nouvelles voies pour faire d'un manuscrit...

Fine Ottocento, sudovest americano. Warlock è una cittadina mineraria di frontiera in rapida espansione; insieme ai commerci, fioriscono il gioco d’azzardo e la prostituzione, gli scioperi e le scorribande dei cowboy. Mentre l’anziano governatore, il generale Peach, si crogiola ancora nel ricordo...