Alex Harris

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River of Traps: A Village Life

William deBuys, Alex Harris

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Evans Biography Award in 1990, River of Traps is a portrait in words and photographs of three men and the mountain village in northern New Mexico that shaped their lives. It is now available in a paperback edition that maintains the oversize format and duotone printing.

River of Traps is unlike any other book I know. In its brilliant verbal and photographic portrait of a complicated ‘simple’ man and his place in the world, it achieves an astounding richness and depth. Yet it never strays from…

 
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