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    The Last Pahvant
    The Last Pahvant
    The Last Pahvant
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    The Last Pahvant

    By Barnie Day

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    An astonishing prodigy is raised in a squatters' camp on the Colorado River during the Great Depression. An orphan, she flashes to world acclaim when discovered by The New York Times. Searing loss and heartbreak follows.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnie Day
    Release dateMay 19, 2011
    ISBN9781458095732
    The Last Pahvant
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    Barnie Day

    Barnie Day holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina. A frequent commentator on Virginia politics and public policy, his writings have appeared in periodicals throughout the Commonwealth. He served five years in the Virginia House of Delegates, and co-edited, with Becky Dale, Notes from the Sausage Factory (Brunswick Books, 403 pages, 2005). He and his wife, Debbie, live on a small, dirt-road farm in Meadows of Dan, Virginia.

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