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Lime Creek (2011)

by Joe Henry(Favorite Author)

3.26 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1400069416 (ISBN13: 9781400069415)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Random House

review 1: Loved this book. The spare writing style takes a little getting used to. I found I needed to drop my expectation of how sentences and paragraphs are 'supposed' to be constructed and simply allowed myself to be carried into the harsh but beautiful Wyoming country and one family's ranch life through the author's rich, lyrical prose. Joe Henry clearly loves the country and the people who inhabit it. Their love of family, neighbors, animals and Wyoming comes through in every chapter. It isn't a book that explains every little detail. A lot is left to your imagination. Think of it as poetry in novel form. It's a short book (142 pages) -- easily read in an afternoon but you may want to savor it for a bit longer.
review 2: The Davis family--Spencer, Elizabeth, and the... moreir three sons--raise cattle, work with horses, and bring in the hay on their ranch. They survive the short summers and long, brutal Wyoming winters together, bonding to each other and to their horses. The boys also learn of their father's horrific war experiences that continue to torment him. There are also touching scenes such as celebrating an old fashioned Christmas Eve in the barn, singing carols with their neighbors by the Christmas tree, surrounded by animals.The story of their life together is told in spare, lyrical vignettes. Joe Henry is also a lyricist who has had his works sung by many recording artists. His prose has lovely imagry throughout that could be the basis of a song. I enjoyed the first part of the book more since the end seemed to get more dreamlike with the imagry. less

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