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Crooked Creek
Finalist:Utah Book Award -Fiction (2011)
"...this rich book is a reader's pleasure."
--RON CARLSON
Sara and Preston, along with Sara's clairvoyant brother Jasper, flee Arizona when they run afoul of American Indian artifact hunters. They arrive in Utah's Heber Valley seeking shelter with Sara's uncle, but they soon learn that they cannot escape the burden of memory or the crimes of the past. Set in the late 19th century, this rich, layered story resonates with the work of such authors as Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner.Book Details
- Publisher: Torrey House Press
- Publish Date: Jun 8th, 2011
- Pages: 186
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.99in - 5.24in - 0.43in - 0.48lb
- EAN: 9781937226008
- Categories: • Historical - General• Literary• Westerns - General
About the Author
Maximilian Werner is the author of the award-winning essay collection Black River Dreams, the novel Crooked Creek, the memoir Gravity Hill, the memoir/natural history Evolved, the essay collection The Bone Pile, and the book of poetry Cold Blessings. When he is not fly fishing on one of his favorite western waters, or wrist-deep in the garden dirt, or searching the wild places of Montana for wolves and grizzlies, he is at home writing or in the classroom teaching and trying to help humans live up to their potential as a species.
Praise for this book
"Maximilian Werner is a fresh and grounded writer, a welcome and original new voice."
"Here in the deep measured prose of Max Werner is a western story, harsh and lush as the old world it depicts. With its compelling, layered story, this rich book is a reader's pleasure."
"A haunting voyage into the past and into living landscapes sharpened by western light, resonating with the work of such authors as Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner."
--THOMAS MCGUANE, author of Driving on the Rim
"Here in the deep measured prose of Max Werner is a western story, harsh and lush as the old world it depicts. With its compelling, layered story, this rich book is a reader's pleasure."
--RON CARLSON, author of The Signal
"A haunting voyage into the past and into living landscapes sharpened by western light, resonating with the work of such authors as Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner."
--GEORGE HANDLEY, author of Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River