 The Lake
Dreams the Sky is set near a deep mountain lake in Montana.
After twenty-three years away, Liz, a Boston businesswoman,
returns to visit her eccentric grandmother, seeking solace
from the lake that made her first believe the world was
alive and aware.
Among her
long-stored treasures she finds a primitive painting of a
woman that reminds her of a legend from childhood; a romance
about lovers whose passion sets the lake on fire. The heart
of the novel is that love story, of a post-World War II
affair between Rose, a local waitress raised by Indians, and
a drifter named Cody. Their defiance of society's unwritten
rules makes these lovers outlaws in an unforgiving time.
The Lake
Dreams the Sky indelibly conjures a landscape of passion,
shifting perception, and the visceral longings that shape
our lives.
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"In The Woman Who Lives In the Earth,
Swain Wolfe introduced himself as a writer of great imagination and
sensitivity. Now...he proves himself to be a storyteller of awesome
proportions."
-- James Welch, author of Fools Crow
"The Lake Dreams the Sky is
about the clash between a remnant tribal culture and the
nonculture of the Western town. But greater than its clash
is its sentence-by-sentence music. Swain Wolfe's voice--with
its quiet slippings into myth, eroticism, vision,
dream--bends the mind the way a prism bends light or a blues
man his guitar strings....Mr. Wolfe, for my money, is the
most formidable Montana late-bloomer since Norman Maclean."
-- David James Duncan, author
of The River Why
"An irresistible novel about the
pleasures of falling in love, the tensile bond between women of kin,
and the pain of discovering just what it means to be an outlaw, just
how dangerous it is to break the rules."
-- Sandra Scofield, author of Plain Seeing
"Swain Wolfe is a
magician--his hypnotic prose makes the familiar strange, the
strange familiar."
-- Rick DeMarinis, author of
Coming Triumph of the Free World
New
York Times Review
Charles
de Lint Review in F&FS
BookIdeas Review
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