Hall, Oakley
Hall, Oakley( 1920– ),California novelist, whose works include Corpus of Joe Bailey (1953) and its sequel, Report from Beau Harbor (1971), wry depictions of generational and ideological conflicts in California families; Warlock (1958), set in a Southwest frontier mining town during the 1880s; The Downhill Racers (1963), about skiing enthusiasts; The Adelita (1975), concerning an American's involvement in the Mexican Revolution; The Bad Lands (1978), portraying conflicts between cattlemen and farmers in South Dakota during the 1880s; Lullaby (1982), the story of dreadful events in the life of a family in Hawaii, perhaps attributable to an ancient curse; The Children of the Sun (1983), treating the voyage of Cabeza de Vaca; The Coming of the Kid (1985), dwelling on long-established regional myths; and Apaches (1986), about the war in New Mexico against Apaches in the 1880s....
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