《The Diezmo》是2006年Houghton Mifflin Harcourt出版的圖書，作者是Rick Bass。
基本介紹
- 書名：The Diezmo
- 作者：Rick Bass
- 出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt出版社
- ISBN：9780618710508
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
At once a gut-wrenching parable of war and a stirring coming-of-age adventure, The Diezmo tells the incredible story of one of the most absurd and tragic military adventures in American history. In the early days of the Republic of Texas, two young men, barely sixteen years old and wild for glory, impulsively volunteer for a military expedition assigned to patrol the Mexican border. After being captured in a raid on the Mexican village of Mier, the men of their expedition are sentenced to the grisly diezmo, in which a random selection by bean lottery condemns one man in every ten to his death. The imprisoned survivors make one desperate, last-ditch bid for freedom with tragic results.
作者簡介
Rick Bass is the author of twenty-one books, including Where the Sea Used to Be and Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had. His stories have been awarded the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award and have been collected in The Best American Short Stories. He lives in the Yaak Valley of Montana.
