When We Were Wolves - Hardcover

Billman, Jon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375502580 ISBN 13: 9780375502583

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1999

Synopsis

An anthology of original fiction captures the colorful inhabitants of the West, from rogues and tricksters and people trapped in unsuitable marriages and impossible situations to other rootless individuals who handle their lives according to their own unusual standards

About this title

About the Author

<b>Jon Billman</b> has worked as a wildland firefighter and seventh-grade teacher, and is now at work on a novel. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, and The Missouri Review, among other publications. He lives in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

From the Inside Flap

could have been around a hundred and fifty years ago, and passed through the landscape as a beaver-trapping tough with Jim Bridger or Jedediah Smith, before coal barons, before soda ash and oil, before Mormons, before you could stand outside and watch satellites pass through the night sky or silhouettes kissing in warm apartment windows, when this history was wild and new, you could have just pointed and named something of permanence, a mountain, a river--at least a creek--after yourself. Or they would have named it for you, a permanent mark, just for being here."<br><br>From a new talent that Annie Proulx has called an "important emerging writer" comes a surprising and expansive collection of stories, steeped in the lore of the frontier but unmistakably fresh and of our time. <br>        <br><b>When We Were Wolves</b> roams over a West we never knew existed--colonized by rogues and tricksters, Custer impersonators, firefighters

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375502580
• ISBN 13: 9780375502583
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 239