Gallatin Canyon
9 best books like Gallatin Canyon (Thomas McGuane): Breathing Lessons, Cities of the Plain, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild, American Rust, A Death in the Family, She Flies Without Wings: How Horses Touch a Woman's Soul, Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness, A Life Intercepted, Old School
| Author | Anne Tyler |
| ISBN | 0345485599 |
Breathing Lessons is the wonderfully moving and surprising story of Ira and Maggie Moran. She's impetuous, harum-scarum, easygoing; he's competent, patient, seemingly infallible. They've been married for 28 years. Now, as they drive from their home in Baltimore to the funeral of Maggie's best...
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0679747192 |
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico,...
From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today; a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals.
Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia,...
| Author | Philipp Meyer |
| ISBN | 0385527519 |
Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation--as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love--that arises from its loss. From local bars to train yards to prison, it's the story of two young men,...
| Author | James Agee |
| ISBN | 0375701230 |
The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth
Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative...
| Author | Mary D. Midkiff |
| ISBN | 0385335008 |
From a renowned horsewoman and gifted storyteller comes this groundbreaking new book that explores a powerful relationship like no other: the magical kinship between women and horses.
Drawing from myth and literature, the author’s own experiences, and interviews with countless women,...
| Author | Pete Fromm |
| ISBN | 0312422725 |
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of...
| Author | Charles Martin |
| ISBN | 1455554669 |
Twelve years ago Matthew "the Rocket" Rising had it all. Married to his high school sweetheart and one of the winningest quarterbacks in the history of college football, he was the number one NFL draft pick. But on the night of the draft, he plummeted from the pinnacle of esteem. Falsely accused of a heinous...
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become...
