River of Traps: A Village Life
William deBuys, Alex Harris
River of Traps won the Evans Biography Award in 1990 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. 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.
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- University of New Mexico Press
- Year
- 1990
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Rural village lifeNew Mexico cultureFriendship and community
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1991)
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