The Fruit of Stone - Hardcover

Spragg, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573222232 ISBN 13: 9781573222235

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2002

Synopsis

The author of Where Rivers Change Directions pens a beautiful, lyrical novel about two lifelong friends who love the same woman and the journey that will take them through the heart of the West, and into the heart of their relationship. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Spragg evokes these doomed characters and the land they inhabit with an achingly beautiful lyricism. Like Annie Proulx and Gretl Erhlich, he's a writer who makes Wyoming's high country so familiar it feels like the reader's own native ground." --"Chicago Tribune"
"Unforgettable. . . . A long love song to Wyoming and the tough, do-it-right-or-don't-do-it-at-all people who live there." --"Denver Post
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"A unique, movingly detailed road map of the human soul." --"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
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"Full of smart troubled people, natural speech, wonderful, lyrical prose, and the great wide varied landscape of Wyoming, where good men and deep women play out their love-burdened lives. . . . Mark Spragg owns one of the truest and most natural voices in American letters." --Kent Haruf, author of" Plainsong"
"[A] pickup truck odyssey . . . lyrical one moment, gritty the next." --"St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
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"What at first seems to be a standard love story is soon revealed to be something much more epic--two hardened men, battling each other and their own demons in the bleak, unforgiving landscape of the West. [A] tale of obsession, desire and rage." --"The Washington Post"
"A refreshing stew of grit and intelligence, longing and loyalty. . . . Places Spragg firmly in the company of such Western writers as Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner." --"Rocky Mountain News "

Book Description:

'Imagine the spirit of Hemingway reborn in the soul of a ranch-owner's son in Wyoming' - Esquire

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1573222232
• ISBN 13: 9781573222235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304