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Bone Fire (2010)

by Mark Spragg(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0307272753 (ISBN13: 9780307272751)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Knopf

review 1: I've been a devoted reader of Spragg's since "Where River's Change Direction." This novel follows the characters from "An Unfinished Life", and the decisions made in the continuance of their lives are profoundly executed. The characters have kept me up at night, not just from reading, but from worrying over their lives, their dreams, their pain and sorrow. The first reason I fell in love with Spragg, and the reason why I return again and again is first and foremost for the way he evokes the Western landscape, be it sprawling, mountainous, or sky. His writing is visceral - sensations of nature, city, human - you can touch, taste, smell the world he creates. His characters are genuine, evidently reasoned with from the writer's perspective. I suppose I am attracted to t... morehe choices they make in their lives, good or bad, I feel I understand them deeply. Beautifully written.
review 2: Third in his Wyoming series, tells more of the lives of Einar Gilkyson, his granddaughter Griff, daughter-in-law Jean, and other characters from An Unfinished Life and The Fruit of the Stone. The Wyoming west is really the main character. It’s a very male book in many ways (the women don’t fare too well in this landscape and in these men’s lives). Beautifully etched. Laconic conversations that deliver large meaning with few words. Very Scandi in that way. It makes me want to go back and read all three together, to sort the characters. less

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