The chase is only a thread of plot to hold things together. starts the story rolling on a chase across a lot of wild Wyoming landscape. He is a real-estate developer, and his death - in the first chapter he is lassoed off his moving ATV by an irate cowboy The greedy modern world is to blame, as always.īut there is a local Snopes in the tall grass, and by no coincidence, one imagines, his name is Snipes. Now, in ''Fencing the Sky,'' Galvin's first novel, those 40-acre parcels and their new owners are actively chopping up his old home on the range. Roamed free all our lives was about to be sawed up and nailed down into 40-acre parcels,'' one of the book's characters says. Meadow,'' he admiringly mythologizes some high-range landscape near the Colorado-Wyoming border and the ranchers and cowboys who lived there - and, with increasing difficulty, still do. In verse, as well as in a remarkable book of prose called ''The $23.Īmes Galvin is a celebrated poet who can wonderfully convey the poetry of earth. By TIMOTHY FOOTEĪ John MacRae Book/Henry Holt & Company. A mythic figure rides the range, deep in thought and bubble gum.
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