The Dust Within the Rock: A Novel (Book III of the Pikes Peak Trilogy) - Softcover

Waters, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804010498 ISBN 13: 9780804010498

Publisher: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002

Synopsis

Based on one of the most significant periods in Frank Waters's own life, Pike's Peak is perhaps the most complete expression of all the archetypal themes he explored in both fiction and nonfiction. In The Dust within the Rock, the third book in the Pikes Peak saga, an aging Joseph Rogier clings to his vision of finding gold in the great mountain and his grandson Marsh comes of age in the Rogier household. It is the early part of the twentieth century, in Colorado Springs, and the schoolhouse, the newsstand, the railroad, the mines--all become part of the younger man's emergence into adulthood and self-discovery. Waters's powerful and intuitive style transforms the tale into a mythic journey, a search for meaning played out in the drama of everyday living on the vast American frontier. Pike's Peak (1971) is composed of three condensed novels: The Wild Earth's Nobility, Below Grass Roots, and The Dust within the Rock. Some years after its publication, an interviewer asked Frank Waters whether it was autobiographical. Yes, he replied, and no.

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Review

"Waters represented a wonder-filled, romantic West--a wild place possessing a great people and an even greater landscape of deep desert canyons and mystic mountain slopes."
-- "Telluride Times Journal"

Waters represented a wonder-filled, romantic Westa wild place possessing a great people and an even greater landscape of deep desert canyons and mystic mountain slopes.
Telluride Times Journal"

About the Author

Frank Waters (1902-1995), one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest, wrote twenty-eight works of fiction and nonfiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0804010498
• ISBN 13: 9780804010498
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274