| Blue Rodeo Contributor(s): Mapson, Jo-Ann (Author) |
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ISBN: 006092635X ISBN-13: 9780060926359 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: Set against the ruggedly beautiful backdrop of rural New Mexico, this novel by the author of Hank & Chloe is "a romantic, elegant, low-keyed Western for our time" (Los Angeles Times). "The people and landscape of New Mexico come alive with her taut and funny prose".--New York Times Book Review. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Family Life - Marriage & Divorce - Fiction | Native American & Aboriginal |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.62" W x 7.92" (0.65 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Those who do not remember family history are condemned to repeat it...Haunted by a failed marriage, a resentful son left deaf by a bout of meningitis, and the slow death of her artistic aspirations, Margaret Yearwood takes refuge in Blue Dog, New Mexico. There, in the shadow of Shiprock Mountain, and in the unlikely arms of Owen Garrett, she finds the courage to love again, and to be loved. And she comes to realize that even the most primal wounds scar over and that there's nothing so renewable or so healing as passion. This is a bittersweet story of ordinary people who must learn to heal family bonds before they are permanently severed. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mapson, Jo-Ann: - Jo-Ann Mapson, a third generation Californian, grew up in Fullerton as a middle child with four siblings. She dropped out of college to marry, but later finished a creative writing degree at California State University, Long Beach. Following her son's birth in 1978, Mapson worked an assortment of odd jobs teaching horseback riding, cleaning houses, typing resumes, and working retail. After earning a graduate degree from Vermont College's low residency program, she taught at Orange Coast College for six years before turning to full-time writing in 1996. Mapson is the author of the acclaimed novels Shadow Ranch, Blue Rodeo, Hank Chloe, and Loving Chloe."The land is as much a character as the people," Mapson has said. Whether writing about the stark beauty of a California canyon or the poverty of an Arizona reservation, Mapson's landscapes are imbued with life. Setting her fiction in the Southwest, Mapson writes about a region that she knows well; after growing up in California and living for a time in Arizona and New Mexico, Mapson lives today in Cosa Mesa, California. She attributes her focus on setting to the influence of Wallace Stegner.Like many of her characters, Mapson has ridden horses since she was a child. She owns a 35-year-old Appaloosa and has said that she learned about writing from learning to jump her horse, Tonto. "I realized," she said, "that the same thing that had been wrong with my riding was the same thing that had been wrong with my writing. In riding there is a term called the moment of suspension, ' when you're over the fence, just hanging in the air. I had to give myself up to it, let go, trust the motion. Once I got that right, everything fell into place." |