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Judy Blunt

Autor(a) de Breaking Clean

1+ Work 359 Membros 12 Reviews

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Judy Blunt spent more than thirty years on wheat and cattle ranches in northeastern Montana, before leaving in 1986 to attend the University of Montana. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship and a mostrar mais Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Breaking Clean was awarded a 1997 PEN/Jerard Fund Award for a work in progress, as well as a 2001 Whiting Writers' Award. She lives in Missoula, Montana mostrar menos
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Breaking Clean (2002) 359 cópias

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One of the best books I have read. Excellent writing, interesting story of the ranching culture in Eastern Montana in the 50s-60s.
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addunn3 | outras 11 resenhas | Mar 26, 2022 |
I could experience nearly everything she described, vividly laid out with frank and clear prose. Even though I'm technically a city girl, this tugged at my country heart.
 
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cougargirl1967 | outras 11 resenhas | May 31, 2021 |
Well, I actually live on a prairie ranch 50 miles from the closest town, so Judy Blunt’s memoir certainly resonates with me. Her insights are written with an almost poetic prose and her voice conveys great strength. I envy her ability to articulate with such clarity the complex web of human relations that are so hardly shaped by the prairie environment and history. The struggle – and pain - to conform to gender roles; the isolation of long winters and muddy spring roads; the distrust of anything new and urban are all still too real in the communities around me. I think I will suggest this book to my bookclub, as an outsider – anyone with a foreign accent will forever be an outsider around here – I am curious to hear what the “locals” will say about this memoir.… (mais)
 
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RosanaDR | outras 11 resenhas | Apr 15, 2021 |
Breaking clean with your past is never easy. Memoirist and poet Judy Blunt described leaving home this way: "I left Phillips County with a new divorce and an old car, with three scared kids and some clothes piled in back. We followed the sun west for hours. Climbing mountain passes, crossing river after river, until we spanned the final bridge into Missoula." —Breaking Clean, P. 295.

She grew up on a homestead settled by her grandparents at the turn of the century. Ranch life was all she knew. Blunt arrived in Missoula, enrolled in UM and got on with her life. Years later, after graduation and a MFA, she wrote this memoir. The book is a well remembered look at ranch life in western Montana from a woman's point-of-view. Fascinating reading.

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