Mine work : a novel / Jim Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Jim, 1943-

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 296 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, 1999.

Summary:

When Markus Cottin begins unreeling some of the family mysteries, his father tells him he will find only "a chain of fools, each one worse than the one that came before." His search takes him to Colorado mining towns, to the Navajo reservation, and around the desert Four Corners region, and the tale he turns up is a shameful one of race politics and union troubles of the 1950s. When he finds his own family involved in bombings and the murder of Navajo man, he won't stop pursuing it until the story leads him link by link to his grandfather, his father, and ultimately back to himself.

A powerful first novel set in the Southwest, told with incredible feeling and style, by a writer who knows the intricacies of the region, road by dusty road.

Contents:

Neal 1

Old Tom 27

Arvo Belke 65

Billy Yazzie 109

Claire Sadler 155

The Lady 201

Andrew Cottin 263

Old Pictures on Old Walls 289.

ISBN:

0874212758

OCLC:

40990059