
Small Rocks Rising
A Novel
University of Nevada Press(Author)
University of Nevada Press
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-87417-504-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 stubborness 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. Ruth Farley is a character of exceptional complexity - a liberated woman in a time when most women were tied to the home; a joyously sexual woman in a culture where most women merely ""did their duty"" for the men in their lives; a contradictory, self-centered, alienated woman who ultimately learns the true nature of love and community. Glory Springs, the site of Ruth's homestead, is a place of wondrous natural beauty; it is also, as we follow Ruth's tenuous search for peace and wisdom, a place that we recognize, that we, too, seek within our hearts. Small Rocks Rising is a novel of stunning richness and beauty, of memorable characters and unforgettable insight into a woman's secret and passionate soul.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Reno
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
313 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87417-504-2 (9780874175042)
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03/2002
University of Nevada Press
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Person
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.