Bøger af Russell Rowland

When Catherine Boland meets a shy young ranch hand at the bank where she works, she has no idea that he just took part in a recent vigilante hanging that she has been very outspoken about. And although George Arbuckle was not a willing participant in that hanging, he worries that once Catherine learns about his participation, he will lose her for good. This is just the first of the challenges facing this young couple in late 19th century Montana. Arbuckle, the third book in a trilogy about a ranch family in southeastern Montana, also takes on issues of rape, abortion, and the difficulty of developing a happy life in the early homesteader days.

Pete Hurley is not the first person to have the idea that building his dream house in the country will bring him some kind of peace and happiness. But he may be the first to arrive in Montana with a World Series ring, a three-legged dog, and a thirst for self-destruction. High and Inside documents, with stark clarity, one man's struggle with the dark side of fame, as well as his internal battles with alcoholism and a crumbling sense of self-worth. A community of people who love him and a generous inheritance aren't enough to counterbalance Pete's apparent determination to sabotage every healthy aspect of his life. It's a downward spiral that won't end until he's forced to confront not only his own ugly past but his unfulfilled future as well. With wit and compassion, sharp humor and startling insight, author Russell Rowland gives us not only a portrait of fame and addiction, but also an indispensable glimpse into the character of the modern West. "Rowland's people are on a search, and he writes them with wit, humility, and a satisfying sense of trajectory." Leif Enger Author of Peace Like a River "You don't have to love baseball to love this story about one (aging) boy of summer who is brought to a bittersweet reckoning with his past. I found myself laughing, cringing, and knuckling down..." Kim Barnes Author of In the Kingdom of Men "...an elegant and potent investigation of community and home, of healing and forgiveness...this wonderful novel is a grand slam of indelible characters and infectious drama, and a flat-out great read." Alan Heathcock Author of Volt

Praise for Russell Rowland"Dear Mr. Rowland, thank you for the poems you gave me ... There is a lot happening here (i.e. in the poems), and I hope you will be able to give poetry some major attention. Clearly you already have. Yours truly, Donald Hall." -Postcard from Donald Hall, 14th U.S. Poet LaureateDr. Rowland is an artist at interweaving the threads of nature, with mankind's journey through it, into a tapestry that connects the earthly to the spiritual. New Hampshire's hills, streams and settlements form the panorama for his artistry. Surveying that scene, Rowland often peers through the present into the past, with its inhabitants and activities-as one reflects when coming across the old stone pasture walls that run through the Granite State's deep second-growth woods. -Shirley Anne Leonard, Editor, WestWard Quarterly magazine

A native Montanan and an acclaimed novelist, Rowland spent the better part of two years studying and traveling around his beloved home state, from the mines of Butte to the forests of the Northwest, from the stark wind-scrubbed badlands of the East to the tourist-driven economies of the Southwest. Along the way, he considered who we are, where we came from, and what we might be in the process of becoming.

When Catherine Boland is forced to sell her hat shop in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, after extracting herself from a violent relationship with a man named Lonnie Spicer, she moves to Deadwood to try and rebuild her life. Catherine gets a job as a bank teller, and soon meets a young ranch hand named George Arbuckle, who is so shy he can barely speak to her. When the coupple falls in love, Catherine has no way of knowing that George has been manipulated into joining a group of local vigilantes that she has actively campaigned to stop. When the truth comes out, their relationship is tested, and the challenge goes to another level when Catherine is violently raped soon after their marriage. Arbuckle is the prequel to Russell Rowland's debut novel, In Open Spaces, which the New York Times called 'a novel of muted elegance' and about which Ivan Doig said "Russell Rowland has given us a vivid and distinctive piece of homespun to take its proper place in the literary quilt of the West."