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Augusta Locke

William Haywood Henderson

2006419 pagesabout 6–10 hours
2006
first published
  • 2006Viking · 419 pages · ENGISBN 9780670034918
  • 2007Penguin Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9780143038290
  • 2008Penguin Group USA, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781429564670

Novelist William Haywod Henderson has won acclaim for his depictions of land and nature and his ability to bring the American West to vivid life. Of his most recent novel, The Rest of the Earth, Annie Proulx remarked that Henderson “writes some of the most evocative and transcendently beautiful prose in contemporary American literature.” Redolent with myth, humor, strange landscapes, and stark reality, Henderson’s new novel tells the story of Augusta Locke, a troubled yet spirited woman, as she raises her daughter in the deserts of Wyoming. Spanning the twentieth century, Augusta’s extraordinary challenges play out themes of love and loss, home and family, redemption and reconciliation.

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