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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"A woman whose looks have always defined her, who has spent a lifetime trying to prove that she is allowed to exist in her own sphere, tries to be herself even as multiple men try to categorize and own her"--
Edie--smart, self-assured, beautiful--always worked hard. She worked as a teller at a bank, she worked to save her first marriage, and later, she worked to raise her daughter even as her second marriage came apart. Really, Edie just wanted a...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them ..." So begins David Hayden' s story of what happened in Montana in 1948. The events of that cataclysmic summer permanently alter twelve-year-old David' s understanding of his family: his father, a small-town sheriff; his remarkably strong mother; David' s uncle Frank,...
4) Justice
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories on the family of a county sheriff in Montana. Julian Hayden traces his early years as a struggling rancher, forced to take the law into his hands, Outside the Jurisdiction is on his sons, punished by a neighboring sheriff for molesting Indian girls, and Enid Garling is on Hayden's wife.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
N 1951 North Dakota, years after losing her son in a horse riding accident, Margaret Blackledge seeks to retrieve her grandson from the daughter-in-law who ran off with another man but finds her efforts challenged by her reluctant husband and the boy's stepfamily.
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