Powell's Books - Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg

Don't Miss

More at Powell's

Interviews | November 3, 2009

On Storytelling: The Powells.com Interview with Donald Miller

Donald Miller is a Christian writer, but the question that Miller asks with his latest memoir, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is applicable to... Continue »

$13.99 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Donald Miller

$15.00

New Trade Paper

Ships in 1 to 3 days

Qty	Store	Section
25	Local Warehouse	Biography- Farmers and Ranchers
4	Remote Warehouse	Biography- Religious

More copies of this ISBN:

This title in other formats:

Where Rivers Change Direction

by Mark Spragg

ISBN13: 9781573228251
ISBN10: 1573228257
All Product Details

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

The acclaimed new voice of the heartland, Mark Spragg has written a poetic and uncompromising memoir of his boyhood spent on the oldest dude ranch in Wyoming.

Synopsis:

If the West had a voice this is how it would sound: writing as passionate and unequivocal as the land and the life that inspire it.

What Our Readers Are Saying

Add a comment for a chance to win!

Average customer rating based on 2 comments:

: river_reader, February 26, 2008 (view all comments by river_reader)
I generally hate memoir...far too many self-wallows. THIS book, however, was my favorite read of 2005. It's passionate, clear, and evocative of what I know to be the west of a generation ago. Spragg loses the power a little toward the end, not unlike the culture of the west becoming diluted in modernity, his soul seems to suffer a similar fate. Read it. It'll broaden your vision of the world and help you think about what we may be missing these days. Then go for a really long, remote walk.....or at least make biscuits.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(2 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)

report this comment

: Melissa Kinsey, September 24, 2007 (view all comments by Melissa Kinsey)
No big words or fancy turns of phrase. Just clear descriptions and honest perceptions. And, in reading, one finds oneself contemplating life's bigger questions. Isn't that what great art is all about? LISTEN! Mark Spragg has it -- read "An Unfinished Life," or "The Fruit of Stone," and, definitely, read "Where Rivers Change Direction." You'll see.

Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(10 of 16 readers found this comment helpful)

report this comment

View all 2 comments

Product Details

ISBN:: 9781573228251
Author:: Spragg, Mark
Publisher:: Riverhead Books
Location:: New York :
Subject:: Social life and customs
Subject:: Biography
Subject:: Regional Subjects - West
Subject:: Ranch life
Subject:: Farmers & Ranchers
Subject:: Childhood Memoir
Subject:: Park County
Subject:: Shoshone National Forest
Subject:: Spragg, Mark - Childhood and youth
Subject:: Ranch life Wyoming Park County.
Edition Description:: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Series Volume:: no. 3880
Publication Date:: August 2000
Binding:: Paperback
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Pages:: 283
Dimensions:: 7.98x5.12x.80 in. .55 lbs.

Other books you might like

$10.50 Used Hardcover add to wish list

The Fruit of Stone
Mark Spragg
$7.25 Used Hardcover add to wish list

An Unfinished Life
Mark Spragg
$6.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list

Backbone of the World: A Portrait of the Vanishing West Along the Continental Divide
Frank Clifford
$4.75 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

Plainsong (Vintage Contemporaries)
Kent Haruf
$4.25 Used Hardcover add to wish list

In Beauty May I Walk
Helen Exley
$6.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

The Solace of Open Spaces
Gretel Ehrlich

Related Aisles

RSS 2.0
Log Off

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.