Mark Spragg, Author . Riverhead $23.95 (287p) ISBN 978-1-57322-223-5
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers, but hasn't received a starred or boxed review.THE FRUIT OF STONEMark Spragg. Riverhead, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 1-57322-223-2Spragg's debut...
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Mark Spragg, Author . Knopf $23 (257p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4201-2
An old rancher reluctantly takes in his daughter-in-law and granddaughter in this moving and well-crafted, if rather derivative, second novel by Spragg (The Fruit of Stone
). Jean Gilkyson hasn't been back to her hometown of Ishawooa, Wyo.,...
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Mark Spragg, Author . Knopf $25.95 (243p) ISBN 978-0-307-27275-1
Spragg’s disappointing third novel (after An Unfinished Life
), a dry and unsatisfying contemporary western, lacks narrative momentum and a sense of purpose. Griff drops out of college to care for her ailing grandfather, Einar, on his Wyoming...
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Mark Spragg, Author University of Utah Press $21.95 (267p) ISBN 978-0-87480-617-5
Wyoming, land of wind and dust, of suicides, loneliness and fierce lovemaking, of uninterrupted vistas stretching 20 miles in every direction, of hard-drinking men and fighting women, forms the backdrop to Spragg's brave and beautiful coming-of-age...
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Mark Spragg, Author, Tony Amendola, Read by, Judith Marx, Read by , read by Tony Amendola and Judith Marx. HighBridge Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56511-900-0
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AN UNFINISHED LIFE
Mark Spragg
, read by Tony Amendola and Judith Marx. HighBridge Audio
, unabridged,...
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