| Winter Range Contributor(s): Davis, Claire (Author) |
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ISBN: 031228425X ISBN-13: 9780312284251 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: An absolutely gripping novel, "Winter Range" portrays a town in crisis: a debut that is fast paced as a thriller, evocative of broad, spare places and changeable weather, and wise in the relations of men, women, and families. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001133034 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - Montana - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Novel In Winter Range, the intimate details of ranching and small-town life are woven into the suspenseful story of three people struggling to survive, to belong, and to love in the chillingly bleak landscape of eastern Montana. Ike Parsons is a small-town sheriff whose life is stable and content; his wife Pattiann is a rancher's daughter with a secret past. But when Ike tries to help a hard-luck cattleman named Chas Stubblefield, he triggers Chas's resentment and finds his home and his wife targeted by a plot for revenge. |
Contributor Bio(s): Davis, Claire: - Claire Davis is the author of Season of the Snake and Winter Range, which won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Novel. Her stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares, been read on National Public Radio's Selected Shorts program, and been selected for the Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Price anthologies. She lives in Lewiston, Idaho. |