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A romance novelist returns to Montana and her family’s homestead to restart a life among neighbors who like to fire automatic weapons, a son who hates her, and the father of that son, who may hate her even more.

Set in central rural Montana in 1925, Waltzing Montana follows midwife Mildred Harrington as she grapples with feelings for her old sweetheart while also trying to overcome the horrific abuse that she suffered as a young teenager.

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Mary Clearman Blew is the author or editor of numerous fiction and nonfiction books, including the novels Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin¿(Nebraska, 2018) and Jackalope Dreams (Nebraska, 2008), and the memoir This Is Not the Ivy League (Nebraska, 2011). She is professor emerita of English at the University of Idaho and has won numerous awards, including the Western Literature Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award. ¿ ¿

Mary Clearman Blew is the author or editor of numerous fiction and nonfiction books, including the memoir This Is Not the Ivy League¿(Nebraska, 2011)¿and the novel Jackalope Dreams (Nebraska, 2008).¿She is professor emerita of English at the University of Idaho and has won numerous awards including the Western Literature Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award. ¿

Mary Clearman Blew is the author of the acclaimed essay collection All but the Waltz and the memoir Balsamroot. She is the editor of When Montana and I Were Young: A Memoir of a Frontier Childhood, available in a Bison Books edition. Her most recent novel, Jackalope Dreams, is also available in a Bison Books edition. She is a professor of English at the University of Idaho and has twice won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, once in fict...

Mary Clearman Blew's education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. "This Is Not the Ivy League" is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman--pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the 1950s, persisting in her pursu...

A story in which the old West meets the new and tradition has its way with just about everyone

This striking array of stories, essays, and poems reflects women's experiences in the American West. Though the tales they tell reflect a variety of viewpoints, these writers share the struggle against the overwhelming isolation brought on by gender and the physical environment."Contributors include: Christina Adam, Gretel Ehrlich, Anita Endrezze, Tess Gallagher, Molly Gloss, Pam Houston, Teresa Jordan, Cyra McFadden, Deirdre McNamer, Melanie ...

Blew's reflections on a woman's life in the Rocky Mountain West immerse readers in the landscape of mountains and prairies and of blizzards and scorching sun. "Blew again demonstrates her artistry and strong connection to the Western terrain of her past and present homes in Montana and Idaho".--" Publishers Weekly". 9 illustrations.

Melding past and present into a moving narrative, Blew re-creates the dry, sparsely populated Montana of early homesteaders where her aunt chose to live. She writes of her yearning for independence, her marriage choices and recollections of her daughter. A blend of history, diaries and local legend.

In language reminiscent of the wild beauty of Big Sky Country, the author gives readers a glimpse into the lives of her family as she traces their connection to Montana's natural and human landscape. Beginning with her great-grandparents' arrival in 1882 in Montana--still a territory then--Blew relates the stories that make up her life. Illustrations.

In "Writing Her Own Life, " Volume 14 in the Literature of the American West series, Mary Clearman Blew builds a narrative around excerpts from the diaries her aunt, Imogene Welch, kept during World War II, while she taught in rural Montana schools and later in Washington State.

The short fiction of Mary Clearman Blew, set in Montana, reflects the brutality of the region as seen in the mountains, the severe weather, and the personal hardships of the people living there. In each of these seven stories, the characters, driven to hurt or be hurt, reflect a range of violence--in their interaction with each other, their relationships with animals, or the effect the harsh environment has on their lives. Whether the turmoil ...