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Mountain Time: A Western Memoir
Jane Candia Coleman
0-7862-2733-8, Hardcover, 235 est. pages, November, 2001

MOUNTAIN TIME is that wonderful hybrid: part memoir, part personal essay, and part documentation of the places in the West and the people who have lived there that have inspired so many of Jane Candia Coleman's popular, award-winning stories.

"For me," she has written, "as for so many others, the American West was the place of a new beginning. Its vastness, its beauty, and the courage of the people shaped in its image gave me the courage to come to terms with my life and my Self. This book is a tribute to those people and that land - a book about how my hopes and dreams became reality, a book that has my heart in it."

MOUNTAIN TIME has something for everyone - nature, history, a poetic evocation of the land, and, through it all, is the story of a woman's gradual awakening to new possibilities, and the realization of her own strength. It is a new account of an ancient story, a personal odyssey of transformation.

Larry Blumenfeld, editor of Council Fires, has termed it "a prose poem to rival the greatest Southwestern literature of our time. Hers is a language in bloom, capturing the soulful seasons of the Southwestern valleys of Arizona to the Gila Mountains of New Mexico. There is greatness in this woman. She has looked into the eyes of eagles."