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An American Library Association Notable Book
In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and the few people who do not possess but are themselves possessed by this terrain. In so doing he reveals an experience that is part of our heritage and mythology. For Lyle, Ray, Clara, and App, the struggle to survive on an independent family ranch is a series of blameless failures and unacclaimed successes that illuminate the Western character. The Meadow evokes a sense of place that can be achieved only by someone who knows it intimately.
Galvin depicts the 100-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. He describes the seasons, weather, wildlife, and the few people who do not possess but are themselves possessed by this terrain. "Galvin blends fiction and fact into a haunting story . . . (a) careful, honest, and passionate exploration. . . ."--The New York Times Book Review.
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Christine Stevens
reviewed The Meadow on April 21, 2011
The Meadow
"Often I am permitted to return to a meadow..."
This is a quiet, thoughtful read for those of us who have a strong heart connection with the high sagebrush country of the inter-mountain West. It follows about a century's-worth of people's doin's in a mountain meadow at 8,500 feet in southern Wyoming. The life requires great hardiness and ingenuity to withstand the isolation and trials of snow, wind, fire, hunger, disease, and financial uncertainty.
The book is beautifully and heartfully written, but be forewarned. It's essentially plotless, and non-linear in the extreme.
It took me most of the book to figure out that it's "faction." The Jimmy Galvin of the novel is the author, and the other characters are clearly fictionalized versions of people he knew well. The central character, Lyle Van Waning, is just too real (and lovable) to be a complete fabrication. The book jacket illustration is attributed to Clara Van Waning. That's evidence enough for me of a connection with real life.
James Galvin is best known for his poetry, and that poetic bent really comes through in both his dialogue and his artful word pictures of nature's beauty. He makes some striking comparisons that created powerful images for me, such as when he describes a sunset "turning the sky as many pastels as you see on the side of a rainbow trout."
If you have a soft spot for Colorado and Wyoming and you enjoy reading about ranch life, give this one a try. Be sure to have your copy of Hamlet on hand so you can check up on Lyle's observation.
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