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Cry Wilderness

by Frank Capra
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The never-before-published 1966 novel by legendary film director Frank Capra finally in print for the first time
"If you, too, feel like wandering, come along and help me unravel this odd tale—a tale full of half-truths, whole-truths, and no-truths at all."
So begins Frank Capra's never published, and often speculated about novel of his favorite place—Silver Lake, nestled in the jagged cliffs of the eastern Sierra Nevadas. Capra casts the fictional Frank Capra in the lead roll of this novel of environmental and humanitarian preservation.
As tourism comes back to the decimated boom towns of the eastern Sierras, Frank Capra finds himself, along with a do-good cop named Lefty, at the center of a scandal. That scandal being that they provided food and protection to two men living off the grid in the wilderness, while the powers that be have been desperately trying to clear the men out of the area, being not the kind of folk they want in their towns.
In a story that only Frank Capra can tell, the David and Goliath of small-town tourism politics comes to a head in the wilderness of the Sierra Nevadas. Cry Wilderness is a deeply humane novel about the ways in which people caring for one another ultimately triumphs over oppression.

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    October 16, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9781644280171

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      • ISBN: 9781644280171
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    • English

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    • Kirkus

      August 15, 2018
      The late movie director Capra (1897-1991) made himself the hero of this recently discovered novel about a deputy in the Sierra Nevada trying to do right by two hermits.Capra was a frequent visitor to the Silver Lake region, and in this tale, two local hermits are proving to be a hindrance to developers who see money in the unspoiled, and increasingly popular, territory. In this novel he wrote in 1966, the hero is named Frank Capra; what there is of the plot is set in motion when he aids a deputy (given the salt-of-the-earth moniker Lefty) in leaving deer meat for the two woodsmen, thus breaking the law, losing Lefty his job, and setting up the Capra-esque stand against the greedy developers. There were always two Frank Capras, the one who made tough, wised-up melodramas in his early days, and the rank sentimentalist who made movies like It's a Wonderful Life. The latter is the famous one, the one that made Capra beloved and the one that fairly oozes out of this curio. The characters have names like Dry Rot and Wonder Boy and Hoppy. People can't answer the simplest question without a speech about our God-given rights in these United States. The lumpen civic-mindedness of it all is meant to be stirring but it's more like wading through syrup.Some undiscovered texts are best left that way.

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