Small Rocks Rising.

Lang, Susan

ISBN 10: 0874175046 / ISBN 13: 9780874175042

Published by University of Nevada, Reno, 2002

About this Item

The time is 1929. The place: Southern Califirnia desert. Ruth Farley, homesteader, is the lead character in these 235 pages. Seems to be, in part, autobiographical. UNillustrated. Read more about : nannies, cowboys, crock, campfire, quail, San Bernardino, doll-sized jar, landscape, John Olsen, Onyx Peak, dimming dusk, and Can-Tree Springs. Author has signed (2006) the title page. Cond ; Paper wapper is brown and black with white lettering. Woman among the rocks is the cover image. Volume is clean and square and bright. Tiniest points of wear. Collectible ! ! QUote (p. 119) : " Lee's saddlebags held another, bigger, bottle of whiskey. She poured some over the cut, then soaked the finger in water. When the ._._._. . " Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Small Rocks Rising.
• Publisher: University of Nevada, Reno
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874175046
• ISBN 13: 9780874175042
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: David Drummond (cover)
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

In 1929, Ruth Farley, a fiercely independent woman, homesteads a tract of land in a beautiful canyon in the Southern California desert. Determined to live on her own terms and to be free of troubling human attachments, Ruth initially rejects the help of the miners and cowboys who are her neighbors and struggles to develop the homestead on her own.
Gradually, however, Ruth learns that survival is a far more complicated and dangerous business, and the entrapments of love sweeter, and more binding, than she had ever imagined. Determined to take possession of her land, Ruth must first face the consequences of her own stubbornness and sensuality, and of mindless and terrible violence, as well as a bitter fight to stay alive through a harrowing and isolated winter. Only then, her hard-won wisdom forged in unbearable grief and wrenching physical trials, can she truly become part of the land she loves so intensely.

About the Author

Susan Lang grew up on her mother's homestead in a remote canyon nearly as wild as her fictionalized valley. Director of the Southwest Writers Series for more than fifteen years, Lang also founded the Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing in 1995. She is instructor of English at Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona.