Bone Fire - Rilegato

Spragg, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0307272753 ISBN 13: 9780307272751

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2010

Riassunto

While Wyoming sheriff Crane Carlson struggles with a meth-influenced murder, his wife's addictions and his own manifestation of a genetic disease, octogenarian Einar Gilkyson takes stock of his life and reluctantly accepts help from his college dropout granddaughter. By the award-winning author of An Unfinished Life.

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“A starkly beautiful portrait of the modern West.  Spragg is an author with a keen eye for both the poetic splendors and ugly realities of this much-romanticized country.” —Joe Darda, The Globe and Mail (Canada)
 
“Teeming with loss, redemption and personal crisis [with] as compelling a sense of time and place as any in contemporary fiction.” —Christian Toto, The Denver Post
 
“About once in a decade a writer captures the unruly West, wrangles it onto the page somehow and holds it down with just the right words...[Mark Spragg] is infused with it.” —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
 
“A wonder to experience....The bone fire in question can be seens as a metaphor for the grief that burns in one's soul.  That fire has the power to cause great pain but also, one is led to hope here, to heal.” —Tyrone Beason, The Seattle Times
 
“A serious pleasure....Spragg's Wyoming is quiet and beautiful and very real.  He is a master at balancing minimalism with eloquent depth to paint a striking portrait of place.” —Susan Wickstrom, The Oregonian
 
“Essential reading for anyone interested in the literature of the West.” —Bill Ott, Booklist (starred review)
 
“A tribute to the human state and an outstanding work...Not one word is out of place, and each and every character is well drawn and intensely believable....This ‘bone fire’ is in fact the burning we call life, symbolizing our shared pain as human beings.”  —Henry Bankhead, Library Journal (starred review)
 
“Spragg's writing is so lyrical yet so quiet. It's perfect for the characters that populate his stories, men and women who just like to get things done; people for whom a life of hard work and integrity is more than enough, it's what they strive for. These are people I know: they're like my father and his friends in Eastern Utah. Spragg's portrayals of the men and women of small town rural America feel true to me. He doesn't write romanticized drivel about times that never were, nor does he write one-dimensional portraits of lives that we in cities see all too often as narrow and restricted. The complicated decisions and paths that Crane, Griff, McEban, and young Kenneth must make and take in Bone Fire lead the reader through a literary tapestry that is both real and beautiful.”        —Catherine Weller, Sam Wellers Bookstore (Salt Lake City, UT)
 
“When I received Mark Spragg’s new book, Bone Fire, I dropped everything.  It was so refreshing and comforting to be back with these (mostly) lovable characters from his novel An Unfinished Life!  Mark has such an amazing sense of place, and his small-town Wyoming ranch is so vivid, and right there.  The fresh mountain air, horse sweat, smoldering fires; every sight, smell and sound is so real.  Not to mention the close-knit sense of community, the troubled and desperate characters whose lives intersect in this compelling story of love, redemption and the importance of treasuring every moment of life. This is definitely a novel that stays with you.”  —Linda Grana, Lafayette Book Store (Lafayette, CA)
 
“To have a new Mark Spragg novel in one’s hands is definitely one of life’s greatest pleasures.  He knocks your socks off with his writing—lyrical, wonderfully descriptive—and his characters, set in modern-day Wyoming, come alive on the pages.  In Bone Fire, we have the return of characters from Spragg’s An Unfinished Life and a 10-year-old boy named Kenneth who will grab hold of your heart and never let go.  This is writing and reading at its very best!” —Susan Wasson, Bookworks (Albuquerque, NM)

L'autore:

Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a memoir that won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, and the novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, which was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. All three were top-ten Book Sense selections and have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives with his wife, Virginia, in Wyoming.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0307272753
• ISBN 13: 9780307272751
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 243