When We Were Wolves
Stories
$35.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
27 July 1999
Summary
“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 yoursel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812992311 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812992318 |
| Author: | Jon Billman |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 27 July 1999 |
| Weight: | 354g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
“Jon Billman is a brilliant young writer with an astonishing range. These fresh and vivid stories are gritty, full of energy and humor, a sharp pleasure to read. Billman’s feeling for rural backcountry, his knowledge of wildfire, baseball, bad weather and treacherous human hearts, mark him as an important emerging writer.”–Annie Proulx
“I think it’s the best collection of stories to come out of the American West in recent times. Jon Billman is very gifted–I look forward eagerly to what he does next.”–Larry McMurtry
“An auspicious debut collection …this dream-breaking Wyoming proves
remarkably rich ground for Billman, who possesses an eye for the irony and
humor that sometimes flourish precisely because little else can.”
–The New York Times Book Review
“The natural heir to flinty-eyed writers like McMurtry, Billman is lethally
witty and wonderfully perverse.”
–OUTSIDE magazine
“An excellent debut collection … strikingly vivid. There are no sepia
tones here. The stories pulse with color, immediacy, and humor … even
when love fails, the characters enjoy a kind of exquisite loneliness, as
they extend the boundaries of an inner landscape.”
–The Wall Street Journal
About The Author
Jon Billman
Jon Billman has worked as a wildland firefighter and seventh-grade teacher, and is now at work on a novel. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, and The Missouri Review, among other publications. He lives in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
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