{"product_id":"the-land-that-touches-mine-paperback","title":"The Land that Touches Mine - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Sanford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJack Mearns\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Land that Touches \u003c\/em\u003eMine is the sixth novel by John Sanford, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Old Man's \u003c\/em\u003ePlace and \u003cem\u003eMake My Bed in Hell\u003c\/em\u003e. It is a gritty, hard-boiled tale about an army deserter, who hooks up with a carhop during World War Two, amid the brutal 100-degree heat of the California desert summer. Not only is the man on the run from the army; he's on the run from his own past. The novel, crackling with tough dialog, speeds toward a climactic choice: will he let the woman help him across the border to freedom in Mexico before his luck runs out?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1953 by Doubleday (U.S.) and Jonathan Cape (U.K.), \u003cem\u003eThe Land that Touches Mine\u003c\/em\u003e is arguably the finest of Sanford's eight published novels. The \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e lauded the book's \"muscular and economic prose,\" stating that \"John Sanford makes a powerful bid for top billing in current fiction [with this] poetic, tragically intense tale,\" and concluded, \"It is an absorbing narrative by a writer of great distinction and ability, guaranteed to hold the interest of every reader interested in the individual isolations and distortions of our modern world.\" In England, the \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e compared Sanford's use of language to William Faulkner's \u003cem\u003eSoldier's Pay\u003c\/em\u003e and Malcolm Lowry's \u003cem\u003eUnder the Volcano\u003c\/em\u003e, highlighting \"the italicized flashbacks that Mr. Sanford uses with such skill.\" And the Manchester \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e wrote that \"the combination of the tough and the tender in the texture of the book is curiously real and satisfying.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 230\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 10, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52547286008115,"sku":"9780578937953","price":30.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/anVPSWM5R2E1amVYckh4eEhTZUtJdz09.webp?v=1761004747","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-land-that-touches-mine-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}