Mary Clearman Blew, Author . Univ. of Nebraska $24.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1588-7
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...
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Mary Clearman Blew, Author Confluence Press $15 (212p) ISBN 978-0-917652-77-6
In 14 realistic stories set in the rural American West, Blew ( Lambing Out ) casts a candid but sympathetic eye on characters coming to terms with themselves and their family heritage. ``College Bound 1957'' features a high school senior who...
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Mary Clearman Blew, Author Penguin Books $15 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-017624-7
Blew follows up her award-winning All but the Waltz with this memoir focusing on the women who helped settle Montana, especially her Aunt Imogene. (July)
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Mary Clearman Blew, Author Penguin Books $12.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-012892-5
Blew depicts five generations of her family struggling to survive on central Montana ranchlands, concluding with a stirring description of her own ambivalent connection to that part of the world. (Aug.)
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Mary Clearman Blew, Author Viking Books $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-83108-1
These powerful portraits span five generations of Blew's family's struggles to survive on the desolate ranchlands of central Montana, beginning in 1882. A bleaker view of home on the range is hard to imagine. Most of the men seem hopeless romantics,
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Mary Clearman Blew, Author University of Oklahoma Press $29.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8061-3177-1
""I cannot reconcile myself to the loss of landscape, which for me often is an analogy for my own body.... And yet I know that I have never owned the landscape."" In her second collection of essays (after All but the Waltz), Blew again demonstrates...
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Mary Clearman Blew, Author Lyons Press $22.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-58574-071-0
Women come of age on the modern frontier in this collection of seven linked works (six stories and a novella) set among the ranches, ranges, households, highways and snowstorms of Montana. Some take place in the 1960s, some in the '90s; several...
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