Results for keyword: novels
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Reasons to persevere
In his novel, Blind Your Ponies, Stanley Gordon West looks into the heart of a fictional small town in Montana.
by Karen Rigby, Feb 06, 2011 -
Excavating John
Kate Niles' wry and compassionate novel The Book of John tracks the travails of an archaeologist named John Gregory Wayne Thompson.
by Annie Dawid, Dec 19, 2010 -
'The music of men's lives'
In his new novel, Work Song, Ivan Doig describes the struggle between mine owners and union activists in post-WWI Butte, Mont.
by Kathleen Yale, Oct 10, 2010 -
How we got to this place
In Driving on the Rim, Thomas McGuane creates a dark picaresque novel.
by Cherie Newman, Sep 12, 2010 -
Tough justice, hard fate
In Brian Hart's first novel, Then Came the Evening, people are trapped in a tragic drama partly of their own making.
by Tania Casselle, Aug 15, 2010 -
Discovery and recovery in a Mojave casino town
Mary Sojourner's new novel, Going Through Ghosts, takes the reader on a journey of love, loss, abandonment and death.
by Alexa Mergen, Aug 01, 2010 -
Pulp friction
Philip Caputo's seventh novel, Crossers, amounts to little more than the literary equivalent of a popcorn flick.
by Brian Kevin, Mar 14, 2010 -
Finding freedom in Yosemite
Shelton Johnson's novel Gloryland traces the adventurous life of Elijah Yancy, a young man of black and Indian heritage, who roams the West in the 19th century.
by Melissa Mylchreest, Jan 31, 2010 -
Birders without borders
In Jim Lynch's second novel, Border Songs, an eccentric, gawky birdwatcher works for the Border Patrol along the Canadian border.
by Brian Kevin, Dec 06, 2009 -
Bordering on injustice
Jimmy Santiago Baca's novel A Glass of Water compassionately describes the lives of Mexican immigrants.
by Don Waters, Sep 13, 2009






