[bksvol-discuss] Re: testing
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:32:48 -0800 (PST)
Hi, Rik.
The list has been fairly quiet for several days. Most
of the posts today have been yours about your
submissions. Boy, you've been busy. You're giving
Shelley and Carrie a run for the title of major
submitter. smile
Cindy
--- Rik James <d28rik@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Testing.
> I have not received any discussion emails for
> several hours. A circumstance
> which is pretty unusual! Just testing.
>
> Thanks.
> Rik
>
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted: Wildlife
>
> TITLE: Wildlife
> AUTHOR: Richard Ford
> YEAR OF COPYRIGHT: 1990
> GENRE: Fiction
> How Many Pages: 177 pp.
>
> SHORT DESCRIPTION:
> Set in the western landscape of Great Falls,
> Montana. Told by a young man,
> of his life with his mother and father. ?? an
> abiding sense of family and
> love, ? uncertainties and sorrows.?
>
> ISBN #: 0-87113-348-2 First edition
>
> LONGER DESCRIPTION:
>
> From the book jacket:
>
> Richard Ford's fourth novel is set in the same
> Western landscape that so
> distinguished his acclaimed collection Rock Springs,
> and with it he extends
> his reputation as "one of the most compelling and
> eloquent storytellers of
> his age... providing us with both the pleasures of
> narrative and the sad
> wisdom of art" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York
> Times).
>
> Joe Brinson was sixteen when his family moved to
> Great Falls, Montana, in
> 1960. Still young, his father and mother were
> following opportunity, much as
> they always had, with their deepest loyalties
> intact. Here, on the edge of
> the Great Plains, they were together, the three of
> them, hopeful and
> expectant.
>
> The story Joe tells, years later, is of what
> happened when suddenly their
> lives changed in ways neither he nor his parents
> ever could have
> anticipated. Looking back, what he sees is love and
> marriage; the promise of
> work and the emptiness of not working; loneliness
> and adultery; and the
> rampant forest fires that seemed to surround them
> all, and threatened to
> outlive them all. Wildlife is not, however, simply
> the story of a young
> man's coming of age. Instead it is about coming out
> into the world as it is
> and not as we had hoped, but as it resolutely is.
>
> With fierce honesty and epigrammatic brilliance,
> Wildlife examines the
> limits of how fully we can know one another, no
> matter how close the bonds
> of passion or blood. And with compassionate
> intensity Richard Ford offers an
> abiding sense of family and love, and how both can
> suffer and yet somehow
> withstand the gravest uncertainties and sorrows.
> Harrowing, transfixing, and
> affirming, this is his finest novel yet.
>
> Richard Ford is the author of three previous novels
> ? A-Piece of My Heart,
> The Ultimate Good Luck, and The Sportswriter ? as
> well as Rock Springs, a
> collection of stories.
>
> VOLUNTEER COMMENTS:
> This book of fiction was scanned using Kurzweil
> K-1000 version 10.05. Pages
> were normalized, headers removed, ranked spelling
> was run. Very few errors,
> and those detected were removed. Submitted in RTF,
> KES copy still available
> if desired. Contact me if needed at d28rik@xxxxxxxx
>
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