Discoveries: Short Stories of the San Juans

Western Reflections Publishing Company, 1999. First Edition. Hard cover. Like New/Fine. Signed. Signed "Kent Nelson", and also inscribed "Nancy - Read Welll. Thanks. Kent". "Kent Nelson's stories have been described as "intense and intellectually honest." The dramas spring from authentically cautious people caught between heart and mind, between understanding and mystery, lyricism and realistic experience. In Discoveries there are no blind weaklings or self-righteous heroes, but rather people in between - alive, alert, and struggling with the dilemmas of their everyday lives. The persistent wisdom of the natural landscape teaches, controls, and sometimes heals. These varied and entertaining stories, set in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado, draw the reader to explore, and make accessible, the difficult landscape of human emotions". Kent Nelson is the author of ten books of poetry and fiction, including Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still (Viking, 2003) and The Touching That Lasts (Johnson, 2006). His story collection, The Spirit Bird, won the 2014 Drue Heinz Literature Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He has also won the Colorado Book Award and the Reading the West Book Award.