The fruit of stone
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New York : Riverhead Books, c2002.
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287 pages ; 24 cm.
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, c2002.
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Book
Language
English
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Summary
Starlings, sparrows, and magpies punctuate Barnum McEban's glorious morning-after with his best friend's wife, Gretchen. When Gretchen leaves town and her marriage behind, McEban and his bereft friend Bennett follow her letters from post-office boxes in Wyoming to Montana and back. Cutting through the road-trip action and Bennett's tenuous control over his temper and his rifle is the story of McEban's own family. His emotionally closed father, his migraine-riddled mother, the brusque but paternal ranch foreman Ansel, and his grandmother form a parallel tale of life on the ranch: hard work, hard living, and hard times. Spragg spins a good Western yarn and infuses every natural landscape with poetic intention, but the writing drags in these transcendent descriptions. The story reads at its most authentic in the terse dialogue between the two hardened friends; their inability to speak poetically to each other brings out more emotion than a flock of pretty birds.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Spragg, M. (2002). The fruit of stone . Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Spragg, Mark, 1952-. 2002. The Fruit of Stone. Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Spragg, Mark, 1952-. The Fruit of Stone Riverhead Books, 2002.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Spragg, Mark. The Fruit of Stone Riverhead Books, 2002.
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