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After Mike Arans accidentally kills Merriweather Snipes, he leaves a confession note in the dead man's pocket, and rides west, in a tale about out of control events and the American West. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.
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"Part celebration and part angry lament, "Fencing the Sky" is a memorable debut, the most ambitious and original novel about the modern West to have appeared in some time." --Kirkus (starred review)
"Galvin writes with laconic precision about a life he obviously knows well...this is an extraordinarily lyrical book." --"Men's Journal"
"You don't have to be a Great Plains cowboy to join in Galvin's powerful, haunting elegy for a lost way of life." --"Wilwaukee Journal Sentinel"
"[Galvin's] prose is disciplined, beautifully unadorned, and unwaveringly true." --"The Boston Book Review"
About the Author:
"Galvin writes with laconic precision about a life he obviously knows well...this is an extraordinarily lyrical book." --"Men's Journal"
"You don't have to be a Great Plains cowboy to join in Galvin's powerful, haunting elegy for a lost way of life." --"Wilwaukee Journal Sentinel"
"[Galvin's] prose is disciplined, beautifully unadorned, and unwaveringly true." --"The Boston Book Review"
Part celebration and part angry lament, "Fencing the Sky" is a memorable debut, the most ambitious and original novel about the modern West to have appeared in some time. "Kirkus (starred review)"
Galvin writes with laconic precision about a life he obviously knows well...this is an extraordinarily lyrical book. "Men's Journal"
You don't have to be a Great Plains cowboy to join in Galvin's powerful, haunting elegy for a lost way of life. "Wilwaukee Journal Sentinel"
[Galvin's] prose is disciplined, beautifully unadorned, and unwaveringly true. "The Boston Book Review""
-Part celebration and part angry lament, Fencing the Sky is a memorable debut, the most ambitious and original novel about the modern West to have appeared in some time.- --Kirkus (starred review)
-Galvin writes with laconic precision about a life he obviously knows well...this is an extraordinarily lyrical book.- --Men's Journal
-You don't have to be a Great Plains cowboy to join in Galvin's powerful, haunting elegy for a lost way of life.- --Wilwaukee Journal Sentinel
-[Galvin's] prose is disciplined, beautifully unadorned, and unwaveringly true.- --The Boston Book Review
"Part celebration and part angry lament, Fencing the Sky is a memorable debut, the most ambitious and original novel about the modern West to have appeared in some time." --Kirkus (starred review)
"Galvin writes with laconic precision about a life he obviously knows well...this is an extraordinarily lyrical book." --Men's Journal
"You don't have to be a Great Plains cowboy to join in Galvin's powerful, haunting elegy for a lost way of life." --Wilwaukee Journal Sentinel
"[Galvin's] prose is disciplined, beautifully unadorned, and unwaveringly true." --The Boston Book Review
Celebrated poet, nonfiction writer, and (now) novelist James Galvin is the author of The Meadow (Owl Books, 0-8050-2703-3, $12.00) and a teacher at the University of Iowa writer's program. He lives in Laramie, Wyoming, where he has worked as a rancher part of each year all his life.
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- PublisherHenry Holt & Company Inc
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0805062203
- ISBN 13 9780805062205
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages258
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