Old Border Road Contributor(s): Froderberg, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316098787 ISBN-13: 9780316098786 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.60 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Katherine is seventeen, living alone in the beautiful, desolate landscape of southern Arizona. Her mother is feckless, her father busy up north with his new family. Meeting Son, the scion of a local rancher, seems like deliverance. They marry and live as a family in his parents' venerable adobe house, but it soon becomes clear that Son is a man who, as his father says, has a "young heart near withered beneath the breastbone." Katherine must find her own way during a dangerous months-long drought, when everything seems to be disintegrating around her. The physical terrain of "Old Border Road," like Marilynne Robinson's Idaho or Cormac McCarthy's Texas, is more than a backdrop--it informs what happens. |