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The Gates of the Alamo
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Hardcover
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (February 1, 2000)
9780679447177 | details & prices | 581 pages | 6.75 × 10.00 × 1.25 in. | 2.20 lbs | List price $25.00
About: A fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas
About: A fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas
Paperback
from Penguin USA (December 1, 2003)
9780142004296 | details & prices | 4.50 × 6.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $7.99
About: A fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.
About: A fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (March 1, 2001)
9780141000022 | details & prices | 579 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $17.00
About: A fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.
About: A fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.
from Diane Pub Co (July 1, 2000); titled "Gates of the Alamo"
9780756758981 | details & prices | 580 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.50 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $14.00
About: A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo in 1836--an event that formed the consciousness of Texas and that resonates through American history--The Gates of the Alamo follows the lives of three people whose fates become bound to the now-fabled Texas fort: Edmund McGowan, a proud and gifted naturalist whose life's work is threatened by the war against Mexico; the resourceful, widowed innkeeper Mary Mott; and her sixteen-year-old son, Terrell, whose first shattering experience with love leads him instead to war, and into the crucible of the Alamo.
About: A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo in 1836--an event that formed the consciousness of Texas and that resonates through American history--The Gates of the Alamo follows the lives of three people whose fates become bound to the now-fabled Texas fort: Edmund McGowan, a proud and gifted naturalist whose life's work is threatened by the war against Mexico; the resourceful, widowed innkeeper Mary Mott; and her sixteen-year-old son, Terrell, whose first shattering experience with love leads him instead to war, and into the crucible of the Alamo.
CD/Spoken Word
With Rachel Kramer Bussel (other contributor) |
from Random House (March 1, 2000)
9780375415609 | details & prices | List price $29.95
This edition also contains Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica
About: A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo in 1836--an event that formed the consciousness of Texas and that resonates through American history--The Gates of the Alamo follows the lives of three people whose fates become bound to the now-fabled Texas fort: Edmund McGowan, a proud and gifted naturalist whose life's work is threatened by the war against Mexico; the resourceful, widowed innkeeper Mary Mott; and her sixteen-year-old son, Terrell, whose first shattering experience with love leads him instead to war, and into the crucible of the Alamo.
This edition also contains Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica
About: A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo in 1836--an event that formed the consciousness of Texas and that resonates through American history--The Gates of the Alamo follows the lives of three people whose fates become bound to the now-fabled Texas fort: Edmund McGowan, a proud and gifted naturalist whose life's work is threatened by the war against Mexico; the resourceful, widowed innkeeper Mary Mott; and her sixteen-year-old son, Terrell, whose first shattering experience with love leads him instead to war, and into the crucible of the Alamo.
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Henry Leyva (other contributor) |
Abridged edition from Alfred a Knopf Inc (March 1, 2000)
9780375415593 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $25.95
About: A fictional chronicle centered on the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.
About: A fictional chronicle centered on the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.