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The Ox-Bow Incident

The Ox-Bow Incident

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Written by Walter Van Tilburg ClarkAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Introduction by Wallace StegnerAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Wallace Stegner

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
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  • Publisher: Modern Library
  • On Sale: March 13, 2001
  • Price: $10.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-375-75702-0 (0-375-75702-3)
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Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. As Wallace Stegner writes in his introduction to this Modern Library edition, "[Clark's] theme was civilization, and he recorded, indelibly, its first steps in a new country."

Wallace Stegner's many books include Crossing to Safety, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose.

This edition also includes commentary by Clifton Fadiman and L. L. Lee.