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"When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France, the mishap put him on a collision course with a curing ceremony held for two Navajo Marines, thereby providing the grist for a writing career that now sees his books published in sixteen languages around the world and often on bestseller lists. Or, for example, when his agent told him his first novel was so…
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7 editions- Audiobook · English · 2005HarperAudio · 9780060815158
- Paperback · English · 2001Seldom DisappointedHarperCollins · 432 pages · 9780066213996
- Paperback · English · 2001Hillerman MemoirHarpercollins (Mm) · 9780061098802
- Hardcover · English · 2001SELDOM DISAPPOINTEDHarpercollins · 341 pages · 9780002000871
- Other · English · 2003Seldom DisappointedTandem Library · 9780613598217
- Other · English · 2002Seldom DisappointedHarper Paperbacks · 368 pages · 9780060505868
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