Laura Pritchett
Autor(a) de Hell's Bottom, Colorado
About the Author
Laura Pritchett is the author of the award-winning novels Sky Bridge and Hell's Bottom, Colorado and is the co-editor of Home Land and Pulse of the River. Pritchett earned her Ph.D. in Contemporary American Literature at Purdue, but now happily lives in her home state of Colorado, where she enjoys mostrar mais Dumpster diving, raising chickens, hiking, and writing. mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1971-02-16
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Colorado, USA
- Pequena biografia
- Laura Pritchett is an American writer. Pritchett is the author of four literary novels and one book of nonfiction. Her work is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by her native Colorado. Both her fiction and nonfiction often focus on issues of ecology, conservation, climate change, and social justice issues.Laura Pritchett grew up on a small ranch in northern Colorado. She received her BA and MA in English at Colorado State University, and has a PhD in English with an emphasis in Contemporary American Literature and Creative Writing from Purdue University.[1] She teaches for writing programs around the United States.[2] Pritchett also writes for several magazines, most often about environmental issues in the American West.[3][4]
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The Blue Hour de Laura Pritchett
A wreath of stories set in the winter of a Colorado community which spreads along a country road between a hamlet with a few villages and Blue Moon Mountain. It starts with the suicide of the vet who has long suffered from schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder, and the death echos out among his family and those close to him and those close to them and to other residents, new and long term of the town. These are depictions of longing and loneliness and love, desire and disappointment and moving on.
“He had something poetic to say, but it wouldn't form in his mind. Something about how intimacy and love were the only sanctuaries, safe places for the human soul, like this mountain was a sanctuary in the rest of the crazed world, and the only road to intimacy was communication...”
“They had been hiking, individually in Montana, and both had stopped for lunch and to make cairns on a large bolder field, stacking rocks to show themselves the way. They saw each other doing that, and spoke of cairns and directions, and then fell in love. I was conceived in a meadow. I too was supposed to show them the way, which, they said, I did.”
I have fallen hard for Laura Pritchard. Yes, I loved Hell's Bottom Colorado, but this novel, really kicked it into high gear. I included a couple of quotes, but those were just 2 of many passages, I had tagged along the way. Her writing is breath-taking, but also tough, edgy and profane. She knows and understands the human spirit.
This story follows the residents of a rural community in Blue Moon Mountain, Colorado. Heartache, loneliness, kindness and passion, rules their everyday lives, like it does all of us. Fans of the late, great Kent Haruf, now have someone to follow. Rejoice!… (mais)
“They had been hiking, individually in Montana, and both had stopped for lunch and to make cairns on a large bolder field, stacking rocks to show themselves the way. They saw each other doing that, and spoke of cairns and directions, and then fell in love. I was conceived in a meadow. I too was supposed to show them the way, which, they said, I did.”
I have fallen hard for Laura Pritchard. Yes, I loved Hell's Bottom Colorado, but this novel, really kicked it into high gear. I included a couple of quotes, but those were just 2 of many passages, I had tagged along the way. Her writing is breath-taking, but also tough, edgy and profane. She knows and understands the human spirit.
This story follows the residents of a rural community in Blue Moon Mountain, Colorado. Heartache, loneliness, kindness and passion, rules their everyday lives, like it does all of us. Fans of the late, great Kent Haruf, now have someone to follow. Rejoice!… (mais)
Hell’s Bottom, Colorado is a collection of ten interconnected stories about three generations of a ranching family in eastern Colorado. The author who was raised on a ranch, writes knowingly and beautifully about the ranching life. The stories include forest fires, still born animals, violence and both family dysfunction and family togetherness.
Each story reveals a part of this family’s history and their connections to each other. They are both a clear-eyed look at living close to nature and dealing with all that entails and a fiercely tender revelation of connections. Each story would stand alone and all reveal one or two characters but it’s by taking the collection as a whole that the reader comes to know the family.
Many of the stories are highly emotional yet all give an expressive view of this family’s dynamics. One word of warning however is that some readers may be disturbed by the casual cruelties of ranching life. I personally was spellbound by the author’s strong, rich writing and her use of the evocative and vivid Colorado ranch-lands to deliver such authentic and memorable stories.… (mais)
Each story reveals a part of this family’s history and their connections to each other. They are both a clear-eyed look at living close to nature and dealing with all that entails and a fiercely tender revelation of connections. Each story would stand alone and all reveal one or two characters but it’s by taking the collection as a whole that the reader comes to know the family.
Many of the stories are highly emotional yet all give an expressive view of this family’s dynamics. One word of warning however is that some readers may be disturbed by the casual cruelties of ranching life. I personally was spellbound by the author’s strong, rich writing and her use of the evocative and vivid Colorado ranch-lands to deliver such authentic and memorable stories.… (mais)
I really loved the way this book was structured--multiple POVs in the voices of the people living on a remote mountain in the Rockies.
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- 308
- Popularidade
- #76,456
- Avaliação
- 4.4
- Resenhas
- 23
- ISBNs
- 32
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- 1