NINA VIDA

Nina Vida's new novel The Texicans, was published by Soho Press in hardcover.    It is Ms. Vida's seventh novel. The Texicans has been widely acclaimed for its literary excellence as well as its radiantly fresh approach to western fiction.  It tells the  story of Joseph Kimmel, reclusive Missouri schoolteacher, who goes to Texas to settle his brother's estate.  Texas changes him.  He battles Indians, rescues an escaped slave, marries Katrin, a young Alsatian immigrant, and becomes the biggest landowner in the Texas Hill Country, but it is his obsession with Aurelia, a mysterious Mexican girl with mystical powers, that nearly destroys him.      

SAD TO REPORT THAT MS VIDA'S EDITOR AT SOHO PRESS, LAURA HRUSKA, PASSED AWAY IN EARLY JANUARY, 2010.    

        This is Ms. Vida's seventh published novel.

        The Texicans is available in both hardcover and trade paperback through Amazon and local book stores.  An unabridged Recorded Books CD and cassette narrated by George Guidall is also available for purchase or download through Amazon, itunes and audible.com.

Published by Soho Press

The Texicans has been enthusiastically received by major prepublication reviewers. Both Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews gave The Texicans starred reviews.  Library Journal recommended The Texicans to America's libraries. The full reviews can be found by pressing the "Reviews" link here or above.  Postpublication reviews in newspapers and magazines can only be described as extraordinary. They are also all listed in the"Reviews" link.

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NINA VIDA

Portrait by Nancy Nimmons

LITERARY AGENT:

Stephany Evans, President FinePrint Literary Management .

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