Publishers Weekly describes Bonnie Nadzam's Lamb - a tale of a misguided middle-aged man who abducts an unpopular preteen for a roadtrip to the Rockies - as a "21st century spin" on Lolita. There are also some notable debut novels. The worn armchair in the corner beckons.īut what best to stack close at hand for the quiet hours of fall and winter? We've gathered some of the most intriguing recent and upcoming Western titles, listed below in alphabetical order by author, for your consideration.Īmong them, there's the memoir Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, wherein Wyoming's Alexandra Fuller entwines her mother's, her father's and her own histories, from Scotland and England to civil war-torn Africa and Billy the Kid and Other Plays, a collection of several dramatic works by New Mexico's renowned Rudolfo Anaya. Along the ditches and river, the cottonwood leaves are first to drop, scattering the ground with gold. The changes seem to happen overnight: Even under the stifling lid of late-summer days, September's dusk begins to come on cool, its mornings curling at the edges with damp chill like the pages of a book.
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