The Meadow by James Galvin
Through short vignettes that read like a novel, 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, but most of all he reveals deeply personal portraits of the few people who live there and who do not so much possess but are themselves possessed by the terrain. 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 evolves a sense of place that can be achieved only by someone who knows it intimately.
James Galvin passionately depicts the rural American West and the intimate interactions between humans and nature in his memoir The Meadow and his novel Fencing the Sky. Galvin is also the author of several volumes of poetry and teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780805016840 |
| ISBN 10 | 0805016848 |
| Title | The Meadow |
| Author | James Galvin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Henry Holt & Company |
| Year published | 1992-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 230 |
| Prizes | Winner of Reading the West (Fiction) 1993 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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