Name: mountain city
SKU: 18934313
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Author: Martin, Gregory
ISBN: 9780865476165

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Author

Gregory Martin

Publisher

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

204

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.7x14.3x1.2 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN

0865476160

ISBN13

9780865476165

Synopsis "mountain city"

By the end of Gregory Martin's unsentimental but affecting memoir, only thirty-one people live in remote Mountain City, Nevada, and none of them are children. The town's abandoned mines are testimony to the cycle of promise, exploitation, abandonment, and attrition that has been the repeated story of the West. Yet the comings and goings at Tremewan's, the general store Martin's family has run for more than forty years, reveal a remarkably vibrant community that includes salty widows, Native Americans from a nearby reservation, and a number of Martin's deeply idiosyncratic Basque-descended relatives. Martin observes them as they persist in a difficult but rewarding existence and celebrates, with neither pity nor regret, the large and small dramas of their lives and their stubborn attachment to a place that seems likely to disappear in his lifetime.

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