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The Magic Journey

The Magic Journey

Nichols, John

Paperback

Series: New Mexico Trilogy, Book 2

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $34.99

ISBN10: 0805063390
ISBN13: 9780805063394
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: Feb 15 2000
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.48
Height: 1.38 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.54
Language: English

Spanning forty years, the second book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy, tells the tale of how relentless progress transformed a rural backwater into a boomtown.

Boom times came to the forgotten little southwestern town of Chamisaville just as the rest of America was in the Great Depression. They came when a rattletrap bus loaded with stolen dynamite blew sky-high, leaving behind a giant gushing hot spring. Within minutes, the town's wheeler-dealers had organized, and within a year, Chamisaville was flooded with tourists and pilgrims, and the wheeler-dealers were rich.

At first, it was a magic time for Chamisaville--almost as if every day were a holiday. But the euphoria gradually dissipated, and the land-hungry developers, speculators, and interlopers moved in. Finally, the day came when Chamisaville's people found themselves all but displaced, their children no longer heirs to their land or their tradition. With mounting intensity, The Magic Journey reaches a climax that is tragically foreordained.

A sensitive, vital, and honest chronicle of life in America's Southwest, it is also an incisive commentary on what America has become on its road to progress.

The Magic Journey is part of John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy, which includes The Milagro Beanfield War and The Nirvana Blues.

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