{"product_id":"the-land-that-touches-mine-9780578937953","title":"The Land that Touches Mine","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3157189\"\u003eJohn Sanford\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tough Poets Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780578937953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0578937956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tough Poets Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42687740674285,"sku":"9780578937953","price":21.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_1a8d581c-fa8f-4806-b8a5-aa2f9699442b.jpg?v=1649783615","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-land-that-touches-mine-9780578937953","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}