Other Reading from the
Prairies that we Recommend |
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Ian Frazier |
Great
Plains |
With
a unique blend of intrepid adventure, tongue-in-cheek humor, and
wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey through the
vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains -- from the site of Sitting
Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie
and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's
In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the
American West. |
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Kent Haruf |
Plainsong |
This wonderful read tells an intimate and distinctive
story of life in a small town on the Colorado prairie. Must reading! |
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James Galvin |
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"This book has an episodic structure, the
sense of looking through separate windows into indivudual moments
of time and place. There is something about the western landscape,
prairies & mountains, that is aware of its own isolation.
The Meadow is a meditation on people in situations that escape
their understanding. Lyrical prose combines with gritty dialogue.
Galvin presents us with the strangeness of ordinary people."
(E. Lee) |
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P. Jane Hafen, Diane Dufva Quantic |
A Great Plains Reader |
This is a great collection of stories. I have been reading
it cover to cover and enjoy every story. Many of the stories
are so
well written that I can feel the wind and hear the meadowlarks
that I remember from my childhood growing up near Wichita. I
would recommend it for every Great Plains native and maybe for
those
who don't understand why anyone would want to live "out there." (C.
Thurston) |
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Kathleen Norris |
Dakota |
"... an evocative tribute to the Great Plains
and their power to transform the spirits of farmers, townsfolk,
Native Americans, and others. "Deeply moving." (New
York Times Book Review) |
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