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Jackalope Dreams (Flyover Fiction)
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Publisher Comments:
The departed men in her life still have plenty to say to Corey. Her father, a legendary rodeo cowboy who punctuated his lifelong pronouncements with a bullet to his head, may be the loudest. But in this story of Montana—a story in which the old West meets the new and tradition has its way with just about everyone—it is Corey’s voice we listen to. In this tour-de-force of voices big and small, sure and faltering, hers comes across resonant and clear, directing us to the heart of the matter.
Played out against the mythology of the Old West—a powerful amalgam of ranching history, Marlboro Men, and train robbery reenactments—the story of the newly orphaned, spinsterish Corey is a sometimes comical, sometimes poignant tale of coming-of-age a little late. As she tries to recapture an old dream of becoming a painter—of preserving some modicum of true art amid the virtual reality of modern Montana—Corey finds herself figuring in other dramas as well, other, younger lives already at least as lost as her own.
Review:
"In Blew's commendable fiction debut, Corey Henry is fired from her Montana middle school teaching job after striking a taunting student, 13-year-old Ariel Doggett. Heading into her 60s with diminished hopes, Corey faces further trials when her 80-year-old father, a decorated WWII vet and former rodeo star named Loren, commits suicide. Then Ariel's opportunistic father, Hailey Doggett, sues Corey for assaulting his daughter and turns out to be a lot more than merely greedy. Corey's lifelong passion to paint helps keep her grounded during the strife. When the tables turn on the Doggetts, Corey has a further role to play in their lives. Corey's imagined arguments with her late curmudgeonly dad, who has his disenchanted say on the condition of present-day Montana, slow things down, but Blew's distinctive narrative voice and knack for description keep the story on track." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
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"A stunning debut novel, perceptive and provocative, in part about the growing pains of a region. Blew offers piercing insights into people who define themselves by their traditions and who must learn to come to terms with the encroachment of the new West."-Joy Passanante, author of The Art of Absence
(Joy Passanante, Sep 1 2007 )Review:
"Jackalope Dreams is a candid exploration of values in transition, caught between a tradition that has become elegy and a future transformed by canny, self-sufficient women. Itself a `long intense shiver,' it forces us to reconsider issues of honor, violence, technology, independence, responsibility-and love. Add Mary Blew's name triumphantly to the canon of essential novelists of the new West."-Judith Kitchen, author of The House on Eccles Road
(Judith Kitchen, Sep 1 2007 )Review:
"In Blews commendable fiction debut. . . . [the authors] distinctive narrative voice and knack for description keep the story on track."-Publishers Weekly
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780803215887
- Author:
- Publisher:
- University of Nebraska Press
- Author:
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Suicide
- Subject:
- Parent and adult child
- Series:
- Flyover Fiction
- Publication Date:
- March 2008
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 390
- Dimensions:
- 884x602x131 139
