"If you could have been around a hundred and fifty years ago, and
passed through the landscape as a beaver-trapping tough with Jim
Bridger or Jedediah Smith, before coal barons, before soda ash and
oil, before Mormons, before you could stand outside and watch
satellites pass through the night sky or silhouettes kissing in
warm apartment windows, when this history was wild and new, you
could have just pointed and named something of permanence, a
mountain, a river--at least a creek--after yourself. Or they would
have named it for you, a permanent mark, just for being here."
From a new talent that Annie Proulx has called an "important
emerging writer" comes a surprising and expansive collection of
stories, steeped in the lore of the frontier but unmistakably fresh
and of our time.
When We Were Wolves roams over a West we never knew
existed--colonized by rogues and tricksters, Custer impersonators,
firefighters with a weakness for arson, and the other rootless folk
who come to rest under the vast and forgiving desert sky. Jon
Billman writes about accidental lives: people who are trapped in
unsuitable marriages, impossible situations, but who handle them
with the odd grace of those who are determined to live by their own
strange code. He mingles the skewed humor of David Sedaris with the
loping, rough-edged appeal of Tom McGuane. This is a beguiling new
entry on the map of American fiction.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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