Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg
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Book Summary Author: Mark Spragg Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2000-08-01 ISBN: 1573228257 Number of pages: 304 Publisher: Riverhead Trade |
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Book Reviews of the Where Rivers Change Direction
Customer Review: Good writing but I don't "get" where the author's coming from
Summary: 4 Stars
The author writes excellent prose with innumerable well turned phrases and descriptions. The subject matter is primarily his adolescence on a Wyoming dude ranch and hunting guide service that his family, Pennsylvania expatriates, operated in the 1960s, some vignettes from his adult life and descriptions of friends and conditions in windswept Wyoming. The chapters are actually a series of essays rather than a progressive narrative with the ones about life and work on and around his father's ranch, where he essentially lived as a hired hand in the bunkhouse with hardened wranglers from about the age of fourteen, being the most interesting.
I enjoyed the book principally due to the excellent writing and colorful recounting of the author's experiences as a real "cowboy" in an era when most of us male baby boomers only experienced the same thing through ubiquitous western TV shows and movies of the 50s and 60s. It was a life in another era when so many of us grew up in boring suburbia. I recommend it for these reasons.
But maybe I missed something because I never came across any explanation for the author's seeming sense of hurt, isolation, melancholy and general unhappiness that begins, for unstated reasons, during his college years.