From Iowa To The Philippines

Lafferty, R. A.: 900[Neunhundert] Großmütter. Band 2. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Karl H. Kosmehl. - (=Fischer Orbit, FO 39). Frankfurt am Main, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1974. ISBN: 3436019216
Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Guter Zustand. - Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure[1], as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels, In a Green Tree; a history book, The Fall of Rome; and a number of novels that could be more or less loosely called historical fiction. Biography: Lafferty was born on 7 November 1914 in Neola, Iowa to Hugh David Lafferty (a broker dealing in oil leases and royalties) and Julia Mary Burke, a teacher, the youngest of five siblings. His first name, Raphael, derived from the day he was expected to be born on (the Feast of St. Raphael). At the age of 4, his family moved to Perry, Oklahoma. He attended night school at the University of Tulsa for two years from 1933, mostly studying math and German, but left. He then began to work for a "Clark Electric Co.", in Tulsa, Oklahoma and apparently a newspaper as well; during this period (1939-1942), he attended the International Correspondence School. R. A. Lafferty lived most of his life in Tulsa, with his sister, Anna Lafferty. Lafferty served for four years in the U.S. Army during World War II. He enlisted in 1942. After training in Texas, North Carolina, Florida, and California, he was sent to the South Pacific Area, serving in Australia, New Guinea, Morotai and the Philippines. When he left the Army in 1946, he had become a 1st Sergeant serving as a staff sergeant and had received an Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal. He never married. Lafferty did not begin writing until the 1950s, but he eventually produced thirty-two novels and more than two hundred short stories, most of them at least nominally science fiction. His first published story was "The Wagons" in New Mexico Quarterly Review in 1959. His first published science fiction story was "Day of the Glacier", in The Original Science Fiction Stories in 1960, and his first published novel was Past Master in 1968. Until 1971, Lafferty worked as an electrical engineer. After that, he spent his time writing until around 1980, when he retired from that activity as well, due to a stroke. In 1994, he suffered an even more severe stroke. He died 18 March 2002, aged 87 in a nursing home in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. His collected papers, artifacts, and ephemera were donated to the University of Tulsa's McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Other manuscripts are housed in the University of Iowa's Library special collections department. Fiction: Lafferty's quirky prose drew from traditional storytelling, both Irish and Native American, and his shaggy characters and tall tales are unique in science fiction. Little of Lafferty's writing is considered typical of the genre. His stories are more tall tale than traditional science fiction and are deeply influenced by his Catholic beliefs; Fourth Mansions, for example, draws on The Interior Mansions of Teresa of Avila. In any event, his writings, both topically and stylistically, are not easy to categorize. Plot is frequently secondary to anything else Lafferty does in his stories, which has caused him to have a loyal cult following, but has caused some readers to give up attempting to read his work. Not all of Lafferty's work was science fiction or fantasy; his novel Okla Hannali, published by University of Oklahoma Press, tells the story of the Choctaw in Mississippi, and after the Trail of Tears, in Oklahoma, through an account of the larger-than-life character Hannali and his large family. This novel was thought of highly by the novelist Dee Brown, who published an influential book (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee) in 1970 on the violent relationship between Native Americans and American expansionism. Lafferty's work is represented by Virginia Kidd Literary Agency., ISBN-13: 9783436019211

Deutsche Erstausgabe. 154 Seiten. 18 cm. Taschenbuch. Kartoniert.

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Markey, Joseph I: From Iowa to the Philippines. A History of Company M, Fifty-First Iowa Infantry Volunteers, Red Oak, Iowa, Thos. D. Murphy Co., 1900, ISBN: No ISBN

Short 8vo., 320pp., original brown cloth, illustrated. -- Some dampstain to rear covers, moderate wear to cloth covers, corners moderately bumped and worn, some fading to the cloth, text pages a little wavy from prior dampness. -- Overall good condition. (XB-156). Quantity Available: 1. Inventory No: 006227.

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Markey, Joseph I. From Iowa to the Philippines: A History of Company M, Fifty First Iowa Infantry Volunteers, The Thomas D. Murphey Co., Red Oak, Iowa 1900

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