By its bust, a handful had achieved the wealth they sought, while most found nothing but hardship and destitution. Like the building of the railroad or the dust bowl migration, it is a quintessentially American story that deserves to be told.
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| ALAS, POOR COUNTRY | |
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ALAS, POOR COUNTRY
is the first novel to excavate the “Uranium Boom” that swept the Colorado
Plateau in the 1940s to 1960s. Driven by dreams of easy fortune, thousands
flooded to the area in a prospecting frenzy not seen since the Gold Rush.
Avarice, gross ambition, madness, even murder were just some of it
byproducts. By its bust, a handful had achieved the wealth they sought, while most found nothing but hardship and destitution. Like the building of the railroad or the dust bowl migration, it is a quintessentially American story that deserves to be told. |
| PROMISE OF RAIN | |
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An illicit affair. The
big skies of Montana. A dark and snowy road. A car accident. A dead Native
American. These are the critical junctions of the fall from grace of
59-year-old Frank Howells, a former advertising copywriter now stock-boy at
a Seattle pet supply company. As the book opens, it is the day of Frank’s daughter’s wedding and he has not been invited. The balance of the book is an exploration of why, including discussion of his ambitious and promising youth, his marital infidelity, and his eventual killing of a man.
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