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Meadow Trade paperback - 1993

by JAMES GALVIN

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Galvin depicts the 100-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. He describes the seasons, weather, wildlife, and the few people who do not possess but are themselves possessed by this terrain. "Galvin blends fiction and fact into a haunting story . . . (a) careful, honest, and passionate exploration. . . ".--The New York Times Book Review.

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Henry Holt & Co, April 1993. Trade Paperback. Very Good-. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners a bit bumped, some creasing/scuffing/wear to covers. binding is straight and tight with no marks to text or other serious flaws. pages a bit discolored with age.
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Details

  • Title Meadow
  • Author JAMES GALVIN
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good-
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Henry Holt & Co, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date April 1993
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1281700
  • ISBN 9780805027037 / 0805027033
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.65 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 1.65 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Plains
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Colorado
    • Geographic Orientation: Wyoming
  • Library of Congress subjects Wyoming, Pastoral fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91034277
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

First line

The real world goes like this: The Neversummer Mountains like a jumble of broken glass.

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Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 07/26/2002, Page 64

About the author

Raised in northern Colorado, James Galvin is the author of three volumes of poetry and a novel, Fencing the Sky. He has received the Nation/Discovery Award as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Institutes. Mr. Galvin divides his time between Iowa City, where he teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his ranch near Tie Siding, Wyoming.

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