Basque Book Series of the University of Nevada Press - Books by Robert Laxalt
These titles may be ordered from the University of Nevada Press, and are also available at the University of Nevada, Reno bookstore and other local bookstores. Or you may request titles from any major bookdealer, who will obtain them on order if they are not in stock.
Travels with My Royal: A Memoir of the Writing Life
Laxalt divides this small book of memoirs into three sections. The first part describes scenes from his youth in Carson City and as a student at the University in Reno. His career as a writer is the subject of the next section, from reporter to director of the University of Nevada Press. In the last part, he discusses several of his works, including where the ideas were drawn from and challenges that he faced in writing them.
2000,
$21.95 (cloth). 192 pages.
ISBN: 0-87417-4854-6.
Time of the Rabies
Based on a historic event in 1920s Nevada, this novella is set on a Basque sheep ranch near Carson City. When a roving coyote is bitten by a rabid bat, an epidemic spreads, infecting the flock and even some of the ranch hands.
2000, $16.00 (paper). 128 pages.
ISBN: 0-87417-350-7.
The Land of My Fathers: A Son’s Return to
the Basque Country
Vignettes of Basque life observed when the author moved his family to a village in
the French Basque region during the 1960s, where they spent a year
learning about the mysterious people and ancient land from which his
Basque emigrant parents came.
2000, $21.00 (cloth). 184 pages.
ISBN: 0-87417-338-8
Basque Family Trilogy Boxed Set
A three-volume boxed set with paperback editions of the three titles below.
Each novel may also be purchased separately.
Boxed set.
$50.00 (paper). ISBN: 0-87417-309-4.
The Basque Hotel
The first novel of Laxalt’s Basque family trilogy tells of the immigrant family’s life in Carson City, where the mother ran a boarding house.
1989, $18.00 (paper). 136 pages.
ISBN: 0-87417-216-0.
Child of the Holy Ghost
In this second novel of the Basque family trilogy, son Pete travels to the Basque Country where he uncovers family secrets that give him insight and understanding into his parents’ lives and their reasons for emigrating.
1992, $23.00 (cloth), 1997, $18.00 (paper). 168 pages.
ISBN: 0-87417-307-8.
The Governor’s Mansion
The final volume of Laxalt’s Basque family trilogy finds the eldest son involved in
state politics, affecting the traditional immigrant family in unexpected ways, often
causing tension and conflict.
1994, $23.00 (cloth). 240 pages.
ISBN: 0-87417-251-9.
A Cup of Tea in Pamplona
In this novella, Basque villagers are involved in the smuggling of illegal goods across
the Pyrenees Mountains.
1993, $12.00 (paper).
96 pages.
ISBN: 0-87417-192-X.
A Time We Knew. Images of Yesterday in the Basque Homeland, William Albert Allard (photographs),
Text by Robert Laxalt complements the full-color, beautifully presented photographs of
the Basque region by photographer William Allard. Taken in the 1960s, the photos give a
nostalgic look at the rural lifestyle of that time.
1990, $39.95 (cloth). 120 pages.
ISBN: 0-87417-157-1.
Sweet Promised Land
The author writes touchingly of his father’s return to the Basque Country after spending many years as a sheepherder in the American West. Laxalt’s first novel, this work was originally published in 1957 by Harper & Row. This is the 40th anniversary edition.
1997, $18.00 (paper) Reprint.
200 pages.
ISBN: 0-87417-137-7.