The Milagro Beanfield War - (New Mexico Trilogy) by John Nichols (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Joe Mondragon, 36, is a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble who slams his battered pickup to a stop, tugs on his gumboots, and marches into an arid patch of ground. Then, illegally, he taps into the main irrigation channel--and so begins Nichols's classic tale of the little guy against the big guy.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><i>The Milagro Beanfield War</i> is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico Trilogy ("Gentle, funny, transcendent." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) </b> <p/>Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. <p/>The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Joe Mondragon, thirty-six with not much to show for it, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully, if impulsively (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel.<P>And so began -- though few knew it at the time -- the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, ever so awkwardly, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, groped its way toward its own stubborn salvation.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Gentle, funny, transcent." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John Nichols</b>'s <i>New Mexico Trilogy</i>, inaugurated in 1974 with the publication of <i>The Milagro Beanfield War</i>, has grown from regional stature to national appeal, from literary radicals to cult classics. Beloved for his compassionate, richly comic vision and admired for his insight into the cancer that accompanies unbridled progress, Nichols is the author of a dozen novels and several works of nonfiction. He lives in northern New Mexico.
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