Full name: Fencing the Sky: A Novel

Author: James Galvin Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312267346 0312267347

A haunting novel of the American West about an accidental murder that springs from the best intentions. Stepping his horse through the lush, beaver-worked draw looking for stray cows, Mike Arans never imagined that, moments later, he'd find himself swinging a nylon loop around Merriweather Snipes and pulling until his neck snapped. Once Snipes was dead, Mike fished a notepad and a stub of pencil from his pocket, wrote "I did this," signed his name, and stuffed the note into Snipes's breast pocket. Then Mike rode to his house, stocked up on supplies, and rode due west. Fencing the Sky is the story of how circumstances spiral out of control, the story of gross indifference and avarice in the face of breathtaking beauty. Ultimately, James Galvin's novel is a book about violence and how it destroys lives when the land is at stake. This long-awaited lyrical first novel is nothing less than the story of the disappearance of the American West. Similar books: The Fruit of Stone by Mark Spragg An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg Sex and Sunsets by Tim Sandlin The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens Final Argument by Clifford Irving Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark A Singular Man by J. P. Donleavy Going Native by Stephen Wright The Wizard of Loneliness by John Nichols The Heart of the Family by Elizabeth Goudge Nickel Mountain by John Gardner Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet St. Elmo by Augusta J. Evans The Pyramid by William Golding Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson