Mary Clearman Blew

• Apr-1990
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• Sep-1991
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• Jul-2000
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• Apr-2001
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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, driv...

• May-2005
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Fire has always gripped our imaginations. To quote Mary Clearman Blew, “It warms us, frightens us, and entertains us.” In Forged in Fire, Blew and coeditor Phil Druker have assembled twenty gifted writers who explore the element from various p...

• Mar-2008
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The departed men in her life still have plenty to say to Corey. Her father, a legendary rodeo cowboy who punctuated his lifelong pronouncements with a bullet to his head, may be the loudest. But in this story of Montana -- a story in which the old We...

• Sep-2018
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Music, whether a Debussy étude or Gram Parsons’s “Hickory Wind,” has been a constant in Ruby Gervais’s life. After Ruby helps fuel a paranoid fervor that spreads like wildfire throughout her rural Montana community, her home life deteriorate...

• Sep-2019
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2020 Spur Award Finalist from Western Writers of America Diana Karnov came to Versailles to uncover secrets. Teaching college history in remote northern Montana offers the opportunity to put distance between herself and her overbearing great-aunts an...

• Mar-2021
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Midwife Mildred Harrington is riding back home one evening after checking on one of her pregnant neighbors when she stumbles upon an injured stranger. She soon realizes it’s her old sweetheart, Pat, from country school -- and he may not be telling ...

• Sep-2022
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2023 Western Heritage Award for the Western Novel  At age seventeen Tam Bowen left her Montana home in disgrace after giving birth to a son out of wedlock. After working her way through college, she settled in Portland, Oregon, where she began m...