Small Rocks Rising - Couverture souple

University Of Nevada Press

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0874175046 ISBN 13 : 9780874175042

Editeur : University of Nevada Press, 2002

Synopsis

In 1929, Ruth Farley, a fiercely independent woman, homesteads a tract of land in a beautiful canyon in the Southern California desert. Determined to live on her own terms and to be free of troubling human attachments, Ruth initially rejects the help of the miners and cowboys who are her neighbors and struggles to develop the homestead on her own. Gradually, however, Ruth learns that survival is a far more complicated and dangerous business, and the entrapments of love sweeter, and more binding, than she had ever imagined. Determined to take possession of her land, Ruth must first face the consequences of her own stubborness and sensuality, and of mindless and terrible violence, as well as a bitter fight to stay alive through a harrowing and isolated winter. Only then, her hard-won wisdom forged in unbearable grief and wrenching physical trials, can she truly become part of the land she loves so intensely. Ruth Farley is a character of exceptional complexity - a liberated woman in a time when most women were tied to the home; a joyously sexual woman in a culture where most women merely did their duty for the men in their lives; a contradictory, self-centered, alienated woman who

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Susan Lang grew up on her mother's homestead in a remote canyon nearly as wild as her fictionalized valley. Director of the Southwest Writers Series for more than fifteen years, Lang also founded the Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing in 1995. She is instructor of English at Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nevada Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0874175046
• ISBN 13: 9780874175042
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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