The Blue Hour - Pritchett, Laura

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Résumé :
WINNER OF THE 2018 COLORADO BOOK AWARD

Pritchett writes with an evident love for the mountains and the people that call them home. -Westword, One of Ten Great Books by Colorado Authors in 2017

The residents of Blue Moon Mountain form a tight-knit community of those living off the land, stunned by the beauty and isolation all around them. So when, at the onset of winter, the town veterinarian commits a violent act, the repercussions of that tragedy are felt all across the mountainside, upending their lives and causing their paths to twist and collide in unexpected ways.

The housecleaner rediscovering her sexual appetite, the farrier who must take in his traumatized niece, the grocer and her daughter, the therapist and the teacher, reaching out to the world in new and surprising ways, and the ragged couple trapped in a cycle of addiction and violence. They will all rise and converge upon the blue hour-the l'heure bleu, a time of desire, lust, honesty-and learn to navigate the often confusing paths of mourning and love.

Writing with passion for rural lives and the natural world, Laura Pritchett, who has been called one of the most accomplished writers of the American West, graces the land of desire in vivid prose, exploring the lengths these characters-some of whom we've met in Pritchett's previous work-will traverse to protect their own.

Biographie:
LAURA PRITCHETT is the acclaimed author of Stars Go Blue, Red Lightning, Hell's Bottom, Colorado, and Sky Bridge, as well as several books of nonfiction. Her work has garnered several awards, including the PEN USA Award for Fiction, the WILLA, the High Plains Book Award, and others. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Salon, High Country News, The Sun, Orion, and many others.

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Table of Contents

Chapter One: Creature of Blue 1
Chapter Two: Under the Apple Tree 11
Chapter Three: The Color of the Impression 31
Chapter Four: Calypso 53
Chapter Five: Recipe: Dandelion's Devil 71
Chapter Six: Storytime 79
Chapter Seven: Last Bid 91
Chapter Eight: This Imaginary Me 101
Chapter Nine: You Win 109
Chapter Ten: Boxed Up 121
Chapter Eleven: County Road 129
Chapter Twelve: Water Out of Sunlight 139
Chapter Thirteen: Smoke's Way 155
Chapter Fourteen: Painting the Constellations 171
Chapter Fifteen: Plan B 183
Chapter Sixteen: Pinball 189
Chapter Seventeen: Debitum Naturae 201
Chapter Eighteen: The Bear 223
Chapter Nineteen: Moon's Solstice 231
Acknowledgments 239
About the Author 241