Stars Go Blue: A Novel, by Laura Pritchett
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Stars Go Blue: A Novel, by Laura Pritchett
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Laura Pritchett is an award-winning author who has quickly become one of the west’s defining literary voices. We first met hardscrabble ranchers Renny and Ben Cross in Laura’s debut collection, and now in Stars Go Blue, they are estranged, elderly spouses living on opposite ends of their sprawling ranch, faced with the particular decline of a fading farm and Ben’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. He is just on the cusp of dementia, able to recognize he is sick but unable to do anything about it —the notes he leaves in his pockets and around the house to remind him of himself, his family, and his responsibilities are no longer as helpful as they used to be. Watching his estranged wife forced into care-taking and brought to her breaking point, Ben decides to leave his life with whatever dignity and grace remains.As Ben makes his decision, a new horrible truth comes to light: Ray, the abusive husband of their late daughter is being released from prison early. This opens old wounds in Ben, his wife, his surviving daughter, and four grandchildren. Branded with a need for justice, Ben must act before his mind leaves him, and sets off during a brutal snowstorm to confront the man who murdered his daughter. Renny, realizing he is missing, sets off to either stop or witness her husband’s act of vengeance.Stars Go Blue is a triumphant novel of the American family, buffered by the workings of a ranch and the music offered by the landscape and animal life upon it.
Stars Go Blue: A Novel, by Laura Pritchett- Amazon Sales Rank: #760203 in Books
- Brand: Pritchett, Laura
- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.70" h x .60" w x 5.60" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
From Booklist *Starred Review* Readers will remember Renny and Ben Cross from Pritchett’s stellar first collection of linked stories, Hell’s Bottom, Colorado (2001). Life in the meantime has not been kind to the salt-of-the-earth, hard-working couple. Their daughter, Rachel, was murdered before their very eyes a few years back by her meth-head husband, Ray. Now Ben has rapidly progressing dementia, and Renny is left to tend to the ranch and her husband single-handedly. When the Crosses learn that Ray has been released from prison in nearby Greeley, Ben leaves in the midst of a snowstorm to confront the man who ruined his family, armed with enough weapons to ensure his misery will end. When Renny discovers Ben is gone, she takes off in what is now a full-blown blizzard, uncertain that she will find Ben in time. There is more than just the bleak and unforgiving setting of the Rocky Mountain foothills to recommend Pritchett to fans of Kent Haruf’s similarly placed novels. Strength of character and simplicity of language comparably complement a rich underpinning of savagery and sadness as Pritchett sensitively navigates the end of a life and sublimely realizes its enduring legacy. --Carol Haggas
Review “In this haunting tale…the weather plays a supporting character, and its unpredictability, constantly switching from placid to punishing, mirrors the tenderness and the tumult in the couple’s marriage. Pritchett’s prose is so beautifully crafted that she manages to make sadness beautiful and tragedy compelling.”—Real Simple“There is more than just the bleak and unforgiving setting of the Rocky Mountain foothills to recommend Pritchett to fans of Kent Haruf’s similarly placed novels. Strength of character and simplicity of language comparably complement a rich underpinning of savagery and sadness as Pritchett sensitively navigates the end of a life and sublimely realizes its enduring legacy.” —Booklist, Starred Review“Pritchett delivers a brilliant novel, filled with heartache and humor, that will strike a chord with many readers. A heart-wrenching exploration of a family in crisis.”—Library Journal, Starred Review“Pritchett has a remarkable talent for laying down the harshness of ranch — and human — life without letting the narrative itself descend into bitterness, and the novel ends not on the kind of saccharine note one might expect, but survival and acceptance. Her clean prose draws the reader into painfully real evocations of all who suffer, even as she lets the beauty of the world blossom.” —Boulder Daily Camera“Laura Pritchett’s is a fine new voice, fully her own, with wise sensibilities. The deep territory mapped here in the triangular boundary between regret and endurance and hope is well illuminated and finely wrought.” —Rick Bass, author of The Stars, the Sky, the Wilderness“Stars Go Blue manages to be both warm-hearted and violent at once -- a complex deeply-imagined family tale which finds unexpected gifts at its conclusion. Laura Pritchett is a writer who knows country life on the Rocky Mountain front range thoroughly and she conveys this physical world expertly, beautifully out of her long experience. Within this specific place her clear depiction of character and suspenseful delivery of story compel us to the last exact word.” —Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong and Eventide“Laura Pritchett’s new book is a novel about family and the Western spirit to which they are born; her characters bound off the page as if released from the pull of gravity. In prose as bright as mountain air we meet a retired rancher whose memory is failing and his estranged, hard-bitten wife, as each attempts to prepare for the release from prison of the stranger who murdered their daughter. Their narratives are as gripping as they are intelligent, as wise as they are funny, as unsentimental as they are tender. What results is proof positive that Pritchett is one of Colorado’s best-kept literary secrets, a superb writer who not only knows her people and the world they come from, but respects and loves them.” —Laura Hendrie, author of StygoPraise for Hell's Bottom, Colorado:Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction PrizeWinner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction and a BookSense 76 Pick“Pritchett's debut is an admirable, steely-eyed collection of stories and vignettes featuring a family of ranchers in mountain-shadowed Colorado. . . . Pritchett, raised a rancher herself, writes beautifully about the hard work and casual cruelty of ranch life. . . . Fans of Annie Proulx's Close Range and Jon Billman's When We Were Wolves should enjoy this visceral, accomplished collection." —Publishers Weekly"Displays the talent of a brilliant, new writer." —The Rocky Mountain News"Pritchett excels at juxtaposing the sensuous with the severe, the rapturous with the repugnant." —Booklist"Vividly conveys a world where decency and humanity are challenged repeatedly, and diminished, yet still manage to gain small, significant victories." —KirkusPraise for Sky Bridge:“[a] compassionate, finely observed first novel… [whose] graceful, leisurely pace and genial characters overlay darker, tenser narrative threads. Pritchett, who proved herself an astute observer of rural Colorado's hardy inhabitants in her award-winning story collection, Hell's Bottom, Colorado, offers an amiable, moving story of love, duty and family.” —Publishers Weekly"From beginning to end, Sky Bridge grabs you by the heart and never lets you go." — The Denver Post“In this spare yet haunting portrait of the American West, Pritchett’s powerful, poetic voice speaks with clarity, wisdom, and passion about country, family, and one young woman’s majestic spirit.” —Booklist“A vivid modern tale of believable goodness.” – Kent Haruf“[A] captivating first novel . . Reminiscent of Billie Letts's Where the Heart Is, this book offers a gritty but redeeming picture of a family that never quite lets go of hope, and characters who are not soon forgotten.” —Library Journal“At the center of Laura Pritchett's Sky Bridge is the courageous notion that a world that makes us all strangers makes us also, necessarily, family. The beauty of the book lies in the way Pritchett, quietly and without fanfare, explores this difficult balance.” —Kent Meyers
About the Author Laura Pritchett is the author of Hell’s Bottom, Colorado, which received the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and a PEN USA Award for Fiction. For Sky Bridge, she received the WILLA Fiction Award and was a Finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines including The Sun, Orion, High Country News, Salon, Desert Journal and others. Pritchett lives with her family in the foothills of northern Colorado.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Breath-taking! By Laura Reading this book was a profound experience that I don't think I'll ever forget. It made me FEEL so DEEPLY. It made me feel BIG things, like life and death and love and sorrow and laughter and landscape... Pritchett has this incredible ability to capture the expansive range of human experience and make readers feel it all, right down to their bones. I was already crying just a few pages in-- but the good kind of crying, the kind that lets you glimpse what matters about being a human on earth. There are hard and gritty elements in this book, like the murder of a loved one and mental deterioration from Alzheimer's... but there is a soaring beauty as well, seen in the poetically spiritual descriptions of snow or trees. And Pritchett somehow manages to weave all this poignancy into a suspenseful and breath-taking plot that kept me glued to the book. I'll be giving copies of this book to all my friends and family as gifts this year-- I want them to experience the book for themselves, and I want to discuss it with people!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Page-turning story, beautifully written! By DS Stars Go Blue is a compelling, heart-breaking, and page-turning story about a family in crisis. I loved these characters, loved the ranch setting, and how connected they all were to the land. But there is a real plot here, and I was on the edge of my seat as two characters faced separate showdowns. And the last third of the novel gives insight from another character, which made me want to go back and read the book all over again. A stunning literary achievement.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Laura Pritchett got this just right! By Colorado reader It's almost 3 a.m and I just finished "When Stars Go Blue." This book is exquisite. Having lived with a brain-injured husband for many years, I can tell you that Pritchett got it all right--the despair, the anger, the struggle, the heartbreak. It's all there, brutal and beautiful. I almost had to put it down, but she managed to get right to the edge of too much and turn it back to truth. The characters are honest and theirs is the story of a generation who still believes in right and wrong, who believes in honor, personal responsibility and not burdening others with their problems. No one has ever told this story of western culture better, as empathetically, or as honestly. Bravo Ms. Pritchett.
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