Watershed /

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Author / Creator:	Everett, Percival, author.
Imprint:	Boston: Beacon Press, 2024. ©1996
Description:	200 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	African American men -- Fiction. Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. Hydrologists -- Fiction. Indians of North America -- Treaties -- Fiction. Water rights -- Fiction. Colorado -- Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13442095

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ISBN:	0807016276 9780807016275
Notes:	First Beacon Press edition published in 2003.
Summary:	"On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawkes, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Everett mines history for this one, focusing on the relationships between Native American activist and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies in the 1960s civil rights movement." -page [4] of cover

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Summary:	A rediscovered classic of politics, murder, and espionage by the National Book Award-winning author of James <br> <br> On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Everett mines history for this one, focusing on the relationship between Native American activists and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies in the 1960s Civil Rights movement.<br> <br> Watershed is an excellent example of Percival Everett's famed bitingly political narrative style.
Item Description:	First Beacon Press edition published in 2003.
Physical Description:	200 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	0807016276 9780807016275