Bøker av Mary Clearman Blew

A romance novelist returns to Montana and her family's homestead to restart a life among neighbors who like to fire automatic weapons, a son who hates her, and the father of that son, who may hate her even more.

Set in central rural Montana in 1925, Waltzing Montana follows midwife Mildred Harrington as she grapples with feelings for her old sweetheart while also trying to overcome the horrific abuse that she suffered as a young teenager.

Fire has always gripped our imaginations. To quote Mary Clearman Blew, "It warms us, frightens us, and entertains us." In Forged in Fire, Blew and coeditor Phil Druker have assembled twenty gifted writers who explore the element from various perspectives.Living as they do in a state that nearly every summer faces the threat and challenges of wildfire, Idaho writers are exceptionally well equipped to recount firsthand experiences. Featuring essays by both established and novice writers and including two prize-winning stories, Forged in Fire covers topics from escaping forest fires and smoke jumping, to fighting house fires and making campfires. The authors deal with human responses to fire-fear, courage, sadness-and the environmental response of regeneration.As Americans grapple increasingly with the proliferation of forest fires and the environmental consequences, this collection has an especially timely resonance."These dramatic, self-reflective, and descriptive essays represent new understandings of fire and fire awareness in the American West."-Andrew Gulliford, author of Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal TraditionsMary Clearman Blew is the author of Writing Her Own Life: ImogeneWelch, Western Rural Schoolteacher. She resides in Moscow, Idaho. Phil Druker writes for general audiences in natural history, natural-resource management, earth science, and geology. He resides in Moscow, Idaho.This book sponsored by the Idaho Humanities Council

Melding past and present into a moving narrative, Mary Clearman Blew imaginatively recreates the dry, dusty, sparsely populated Montana of the early homesteaders and of her aunt Imogene's young womanhood. This is a rich and unforgettable blend of intimate reflection, diaries, history, and local legend.

In language reminiscent of the wild beauty of Big Sky Country, Mary Clearman Blew gives us a glimpse into the lives of her family as she traces their connection to Montana's natural and human landscape. Beginning with her great-grandparents' arrival in 1882 in Montana--still a territory then--Blew relates the stories that make up her life.

Mary Clearman Blew's education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not the Ivy League is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman.

In this action-packed novel set in 1975 Montana, history professor Diana Karnov begins to see what she had learned about western America in an entirely new light.

Music, whether a Debussy etude or Gram Parson's "Hickory Wind", has been a constant in Ruby Gervais's life. After Ruby helps fuel a paranoid fervor that spreads like wildfire throughout her rural Montana community, her home life deteriorates. Throughout, Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin is underscored by the music that forms inextricable bonds between fascinating characters.

The departed men in her life still have plenty to say to Corey. Her father, a legendary rodeo cowboy who punctuated his lifelong pronouncements with a bullet to his head, may be the loudest. But in this story of Montana - a story in which the old West meets the new and tradition has its way with just about everyone - it is Corey's voice we listen to.