Fencing the Sky

Fencing the Sky PDF Author: James Galvin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312267346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Book Description
A rancher in the West lassos a pushy land developer, breaking his neck. The rancher flees into the wilds, helped by fellow ranchers and is pursued by federal agents. A look at an endangered world under siege from yuppies.

Fencing the Sky

Fencing the Sky PDF Author: James Galvin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312267346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Book Description
A rancher in the West lassos a pushy land developer, breaking his neck. The rancher flees into the wilds, helped by fellow ranchers and is pursued by federal agents. A look at an endangered world under siege from yuppies.

The Meadow

The Meadow PDF Author: James Galvin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466864559
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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An American Library Association Notable Book In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and the few people who do not possess but are themselves possessed by this terrain. In so doing he reveals an experience that is part of our heritage and mythology. For Lyle, Ray, Clara, and App, the struggle to survive on an independent family ranch is a series of blameless failures and unacclaimed successes that illuminate the Western character. The Meadow evokes a sense of place that can be achieved only by someone who knows it intimately.

Everything We Always Knew was True

Everything We Always Knew was True PDF Author: James Galvin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556594922
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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James Galvin turns to highly imagistic and personal narratives to rain down compassion within isolation

Fencing the Sky

Fencing the Sky PDF Author: James Galvin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 146685426X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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A cattleman flees the scene of an accidental murder in “the most ambitious and original novel about the modern West to have appeared in some time” (Kirkus Reviews). Stepping his horse through the lush, beaver-worked draw looking for stray cows, Mike Arans never imagined that, moments later, he’d find himself swinging a nylon loop around Merriweather Snipes and pulling until his neck snapped. Once Snipes was dead, Mike fished a notepad and a stub of pencil from his pocket, wrote “I did this,” signed his name, and stuffed the note into Snipes’s breast pocket. Then Mike rode to his house, stocked up on supplies, and rode due west. Fencing the Sky is the story of how circumstances spiral out of control, the story of gross indifference and avarice in the face of breathtaking beauty. Ultimately, James Galvin’s novel is a book about violence and how it destroys lives when the land is at stake. This long-awaited lyrical first novel is nothing less than the story of the disappearance of the American West. “A unique and extraordinary book, a mixture of novel and natural history wherein Galvin reinvents the form, the true mark of a genuine artist . . . I can’t recommend it too highly.” —Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall

X

X PDF Author: James Galvin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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"X" is the kiss and betrayal, the embrace, the crucifixion, the mathematical unknown. In his sixth book of poems, James Galvin writes from a deep, philosophical engagement with the landscape and faces a "vertigo of solitude" with his marriage dissolved, his only daughter grown and gone, and the log house he built by hand abandoned. "What did I love that made me believe it would last?" he asks. Something has to be true enough to be Taken for granted. In the hospital I saw An old man Caressing the face of an old woman. This same man, young, caressed her face In just that way. That's the stillness At the center of change-- A sadness worth dying for, I swear-- There is no other. --from "Dying into What I've Done" "James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry."--The Nation "In James Galvin we have a superior poet."--American Book Review "Galvin's poems have the virtues of precise observation and original language, yes, but what he also brings to the table is a rigor of mind and firmness of phrasing which make the slightest of his poems an architectural pleasure."--Harvard Review James Galvin has published five collections of poetry, most recently Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall/The Nation Prize. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed prose book, The Meadow and a novel, Fencing the Sky. He lives in Laramie, Wyoming, where he works as a rancher part of each year, and in Iowa City, where he is a member of the permanent faculty of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Coyote and the Sky

Coyote and the Sky PDF Author: Emmett Shkeme Garcia
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826337306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Book Description
Tells the Indian creation myth of how the Animal People created the sun, moon, and stars.

Ribbon in the Sky

Ribbon in the Sky PDF Author: Dorothy Garlock
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0759522804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Book Description
Love is put to the ultimate test as spritely Letty Pringle is banished by her cruel father to raise her son on a desolate farm in Nebraska in the early 1900's.

Resurrection Update

Resurrection Update PDF Author: James Galvin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556591228
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Gathers previously published and new poems from the noted poet.

Boundless Sky

Boundless Sky PDF Author: Amanda Addison
Publisher: Lantana Publishing
ISBN: 1913747107
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21

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A migrating swallow and a migrant girl cross paths while looking for a place to call home. A bird so small that it fits in your hand flies halfway around the world looking for a place to nest, while a young girl from northern Africa flees halfway around the world looking for safety. This is the story of Bird. This is the story of Leila. This is the story of a chance encounter and a long journey home. North Somerset Teachers Book Awards shortlist. Kate Greenaway Medal Nomination. “Beneath the surface, one can find many opportunities for a deep conversation about belonging, welcoming, and freedom from oppression and danger”—Youth Book Review Services “A delicate and touching little tale that packs its powerful message inside a velvet glove. Do yourselves a favor and order a copy now”—The Letterpress Project “A beautiful exploration of friendship, the parallel migrations of Bird and Leila, and the welcome they receive in their new home. Perfect for developing empathy and compassion”—Library Girl and Book Boy

Waters Like the Sky

Waters Like the Sky PDF Author: Nikki Rajala
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878397761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Steeped in the history of the French-Canadian voyageur journeys in the early 1800s in North America, Waters Like the Sky is a story of a well-educated teen boy who despises his fancy schooling and longs for a more adventurous life. Andrae's fate changes when a letter with a royal seal arrives. He discovers he has French noble blood. He is part of a family in France, has a brother he's never met, and an enemy who wants him dead. Determined to locate his brother and set things right, Andrae sets out to search for Denis in the only way open to him--becoming a voyageur. Unaccustomed to the hard voyageur life, Andrae uses his only advantage--his education. He fights to earn the respect of his fellow voyageurs and gains many life lessons on his quest to track down his brother. Will he be able to reach Denis before the evil one the natives call the windigo finds him first?"--Page 4 of cover.