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From critically acclaimed author of The Meadow comes a haunting novel of the American West.

Circumstances spiral out of control when an accidental murder springs from the best intentions. With one man dead and another on the run, this is a story about violence and how it destroys lives when the land is at stake. This lyrical first novel--long-awaited by the many admirers of James Galvin's The Meadow--is nothing less than the story of the disappearance of the American West.

An American Library Association Notable Book

In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and the few people who do not possess but are themselves possessed by this terrain. In so doing he reveals an experience that is part of our heritage and mythology. For Lyle, Ray, Clara, and App, the struggle to survive on an independent family ranch is a series of blameless failures and unacclaimed...

"James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry."--The Nation

"Bleak and unsentimental but blessedly free of self-indulgence, these poems give the feeling of being absolutely essential."--Library Journal

"Galvin has] the virtues of precise observation and original language . . . a rigor of mind and firmness of phrasing which make each] poem an architectural pleasure."--Harvard Review

In his first collection in seven years, James Galvin expands upon his signature spare and gnomic lyric as he engages...

At the turn of the century a small, humorous book on tactics was published. The Defense of Duffer's Drift quickly became a bestseller and today is still widely read. The Defense of Hill 781 is a modem version of this classic--a tactical primer with ample funpoking, but with serious lessons to be learned.

Lt. Col. A. Tack Always Finds himself in the California...

Praise for the previous edition: ..".especially useful...Recommended..."--Choice