Larry Watson (1) (1947–)
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Born in Rugby, North Dakota, & raised in Bismark, Larry Watson received his B.A., & M.A. in English from the University of North Dakota & his Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Utah. Watson is the author of the novel "In a Dark Time" & a book of poetry, "Leaving Dakota". He taught vis mere English at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point & lives in Plover, Wisconsin. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Photo by Susan Watson
Værker af Larry Watson
Leaving Dakota 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Bidragyder — 178 eksemplarer
These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union by John Leonard (1995) — Bidragyder — 91 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Watson, Lawrence
- Fødselsdato
- 1947
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (til kort)
- USA
- Fødested
- Rugby, North Dakota, USA
- Bopæl
- Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
Plover, Wisconsin, USA - Uddannelse
- University of Utah (PhD - Creative Writing)
University of North Dakota (BA - English, MA - English) - Erhverv
- professor (English)
novelist
poet
short-story writer - Organisationer
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Marquette University - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- The High Plains Book Award (2007)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship ( [1987, 2004])
Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Fiction Award (1994)
Milkweed National Fiction Prize (1993) - Kort biografi
- Larry Watson was born in 1947 in Rugby, North Dakota. He grew up in Bismarck, North Dakota, and was educated in its public schools. Larry married his high school sweetheart, Susan Gibbons, in 1967. He received his BA and MA from the University of North Dakota, his Ph.D. from the creative writing program at the University of Utah, and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Ripon College. Watson has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1987, 2004) and the Wisconsin Arts Board.
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I got this out accidentally. There is another book of the same title that deals with Edgar Allen Poe. I decided to read it anyway and am glad I did. Realistic portrayal of the choices people make and the many different forces leading to them. Interesting.
This is a small but tight masterpiece that slowly unravels and reveals. Thanks for lending it to me Ida. Having just read [b:On The Road|841947|On The Road|Jack Kerouac|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1178825422l/841947._SY75_.jpg|1701188] also set around 1948, [b:Montana 1948|6989112|Montana 1948|Larry Watson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1283045778l/6989112._SY75_.jpg|144809] here we have yet another dimension to middle America. More families on the move but for different reasons.
… (mere)
I suddenly felt a great distance between us, as if, at that moment, each of us stood on our own little square of flooring with open space surrounding us. Too far apart to jump to anyone else's island., we could only stare at each other the way my mother stared at my father.
Larry Watson returns to the same landscape and era where his brilliant Montana 1948 was set, and once again captures precisely the landscape, the people, and the ethos of that time and place. Like Kent Haruf, Watson writes with a spare, taut style, yet manages to unearth essential truths about not only his characters, but about human wants and needs, as well.
Let Him Go, ultimately, is a tragedy of Shakespearian proportions – not only in the story but in the characters whose own bone-deep beliefs, strengths, and weaknesses, lead them inevitably to their fates.
When we first meet Margaret Blackledge, she is a woman on a mission – to find and retrieve her only grandson, spirited away by his mother after the death of Margaret’s son. She confronts her husband of many years and offers him a matter-of-fact choice – come with her now, no arguments, no conditions, or be left behind. And George, reluctantly, almost wordlessly, gets in the car – not particularly because he agrees that the child would be better with them, but because life with this unbending, strong-willed partner is as necessary to him as the air he breathes.
Their journey to locate the boy, his mother, and the powerful and malevolent family to which they now belong, leads the aging couple out of North Dakota into Montana and ultimately into a maelstrom of violence from which there is no turning back.
The action moves toward a conclusion which is as inevitable as it is shocking, and the reader may not know whether to weep or rage. They will only know that they won’t soon forget it.… (mere)
Let Him Go, ultimately, is a tragedy of Shakespearian proportions – not only in the story but in the characters whose own bone-deep beliefs, strengths, and weaknesses, lead them inevitably to their fates.
When we first meet Margaret Blackledge, she is a woman on a mission – to find and retrieve her only grandson, spirited away by his mother after the death of Margaret’s son. She confronts her husband of many years and offers him a matter-of-fact choice – come with her now, no arguments, no conditions, or be left behind. And George, reluctantly, almost wordlessly, gets in the car – not particularly because he agrees that the child would be better with them, but because life with this unbending, strong-willed partner is as necessary to him as the air he breathes.
Their journey to locate the boy, his mother, and the powerful and malevolent family to which they now belong, leads the aging couple out of North Dakota into Montana and ultimately into a maelstrom of violence from which there is no turning back.
The action moves toward a conclusion which is as inevitable as it is shocking, and the reader may not know whether to weep or rage. They will only know that they won’t soon forget it.… (mere)
I chose this book mainly because of the title, but I enjoyed reading it. A death of a Native woman that looks routine and natural turns out to be anything but. A family is torn apart when the sheriff stands up for what is right. The book is short, so the action moves quickly.
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