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 Author Name: Allen Morris Jones
Title: LAST YEAR'S RIVER: A NOVEL
Binding: Hardcover
Type: BOOK
Publisher: HOUGHTON-MIFFLIN CO
ISBN Number: 0618131612 / 9780618131617
Seller ID: 1028546
In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Jim Harrison, a first novel of love and the West in the age of Gatsby. 5.5x8 inches, 256 pgs.
'Virginia Price, a privileged New York debutante, pregnant from a rape, travels west to bear her child away from New York society. Henry Mohr, exhausted from combat in the trenches of World War I and haunted by his abusive father, returns home to his family's Wyoming ranch. They are the most unlikely of lovers. Virginia, at seventeen, is at home in New York's after-hours speakeasies; Henry, only with a concrete task before him: breaking a horse to saddle, sinking a fence post. Sharing nothing but loneliness and a certain watchfulness of soul, they begin an affair that soon grows into something beyond their control. At first it seems purely physical, or as if their bodies were instinctively being drawn together to fill in each other's absences. But when a man from New York arrives to claim Virginia's hand in marriage and Henry's father threatens to repeat his past abuses, they must confront their love for each other. With a suspenseful, page-turning plot and set amid the exquisitely rendered landscape of the Rocky Mountain West, Last Year's River evokes such recent successes as Plainsong and All the Pretty Horses.
"As clean as wind and water and stone, Last Year's River has the power and grace of a wild animal. It's a lovely and elegant book, as mesmerizing as the landscape on which it takes place." - Rick Bass
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Allen Morris Jones has lived and worked in Montana most of his life. At age twenty-five, he became the editor of one of the West's most highly regarded periodicals, Big Sky Journal, where he published such writers as Annie Proulx, Jim Harrison, & Thomas McGuane. Jones recently resigned this post, after five years with the magazine, in order to devote his full energies to completing Last Year's River, his first novel. He is also the author of Hunting and Ethics in Missouri River Breaks and the coeditor, with Jeff Wetmore, of Where We Live: The Best of Big Sky Journal. Jones is an avid fisher and hunter and frequently returns to his family ranch in the Missouri Breaks.
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