American Copper: A Novel, by Shann Ray
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As Evelynne Lowry, the daughter of a copper baron, comes of age in early 20th century Montana, the lives of horses dovetail with the lives of people and her own quest for womanhood becomes inextricably intertwined with the future of two men who face nearly insurmountable losses—a lonely steer wrestler named Zion from the Montana highline, and a Cheyenne team roper named William Black Kettle, the descendant of peace chiefs.An epic that runs from the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the ore and industry of the 1930s, American Copper is a novel not only about America’s hidden desire for regeneration through violence but about the ultimate cost of forgiveness and the demands of atonement. It also explores the genocidal colonization of the Cheyenne, the rise of big copper, and the unrelenting ascent of dominant culture. Evelynne’s story is a poignant elegy to horses, cowboys both native and euro-american, the stubbornness of racism, and the entanglements of modern humanity during the first half of the twentieth century. Set against the wide plains and soaring mountainscapes of Montana, this is the American West re-envisioned, imbued with unconditional violence, but also sweet, sweet love.
American Copper: A Novel, by Shann Ray- Amazon Sales Rank: #91305 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.20" h x .90" w x 5.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Review “The train . . . is the defining symbol of industry and expansionism, and the sentences in Shann Ray’s debut novel, American Copper, race across the page like the hammering of spikes, the clatter of ties, the banshee wail of the steam engines that signal the violent seizure of the West . . . You might expect this saga—which chronicles the white and Cheyenne experience—to clock in at a doorstopping 5,000 pages, but Ray balances his scenes with lyrical summary so that time expands swiftly. This stylistic move—along with the wild landscape and wilder characters—makes American Copper read like the offspring of Jim Harrison’s Legends of the Fall.” --EsquireThe prose is elegant, precise and observant, as when Zion notes there are "only two races of men... decent and unprincipled." -Kirkus starred review“Beautifully told . . . Ray's poetic sensibility shows in his careful prose; its spare style may recall Jim Harrison's Legends of the Fall, while the range of history covered is similar to that of Shannon Burke's Into the Savage Country. A Western epic with appeal for literary readers, this seems likely to become a classic Montana read.” —Library Journal“Brings to mind Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx . . . lyrical, prophetic, brutal yet ultimately hopeful.” — Dave Eggers“Tough, poetic, and beautiful.” -- Sherman Alexie"In American Copper, Shann Ray harnesses his formidable sensibilities as both poet and short-form fiction writer to create a balance between the intimate and the epic. Contrasting Montana’s early-day rodeo riders with the rise of a dictatorial copper baron, the entire state becomes not only a backdrop but a mirror for complicated clashes of race and class, family and tribe, gender and society. Ray’s range of characterizations reminds us that despite its mythic tropes, the West has been a place of mind-boggling identities and all-too-human tragedies for a very long time. I was reminded as much of the tribal folklore of James Willard Schultz as the fearless genre-bending of Dorothy M. Johnson, and the pitch-perfect naturalism of James Welch. No small feat." – Malcolm Brooks"Some books devour their readers; other books are written to be devoured. With an emotional heart as enormous as the Montana mountains, Shann Ray's American Copper is that rare book that does both. In one breath you'll marvel at Ray's poetic lyricism, with the next you'll grunt at his toughness. And in between you'll turn the pages impulsively. With American Copper, Ray announces himself as one of the finest writers working today." – Peter Geye“American Copper is a spacious and stirring book that arcs itself across the dark skies of the West. Centered on Evelynne Lowry, privileged daughter of an insatiable copper king, the novel divines the deepest sources of American tragedy—the implacability of wealth, the heartlessness of colonialism, the rage of racial injustice. Shann Ray’s beautiful prose blends the lyrical yearning of James Welch with the historic sweep of Philipp Meyer to create an epic tale anchored in bitter loss and annealed by powerful love.” --Alyson Hagy"This grave, unusual novel unfolds with a beautiful evenhandedness, balancing the outer world and the inner life, Cheyenne and white experiences of early 20th-century Montana. Ray’s feel for the heart and soul of Montana and its people—all its people—graces every page. - Andrea Barrett, author of Archangel and The Air We Breathe.“An expansive and luminous tale of the American West told through crystalline prose. American Copper ushers Shann Ray into the company of Montana's finest writers. It's a read as compelling as Harrison's masterwork Legends of the Fall and Kittredge's Willow Field. Heartbreaking and heart pounding and not to be missed.” -- Debra Magpie Earling
About the Author Shann Ray grew up in Montana, played college basketball at Montana State University and Pepperdine University and professional basketball in Germany. Among other places, his work has appeared in the Best New Poets and The Better of McSweeney’s anthologies, and been selected as notable in the Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best of the West, and as a finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award. He now lives with his wife and three daughters in Spokane, Washington where he teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University. American Copper is his debut novel.Ray’s first book, a story collection entitled American Masculine, published by Graywolf as Winner of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Prize, was named by Esquire as one of Three Books Every Man Should Read, and selected by Kirkus as a Best Book, Best Short Story Collection, and Editor’s Choice selection. It won an American Book Award, the High Plains Book Award for Best First Book and Best Short Story Collection. The author received an NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing in 2012.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Light-filled and lovely By David Abrams If I compared a book to a twilit mountain range washed in purples and oranges and reds, the sight of it causing you, the reader who has trudged through a dull landscape of ordinary novels, to stumble in your sojourn and fall to one knee in reverence for the toothy horizon; and if I said reading this particular novel was as bracing and invigorating as drinking from a cold, clear alpine stream; and if I said it was gorgeous as a coffee-table book and deeply meditative as the Book of Psalms; and if I said just one book can, however briefly, change the way you look at both the natural world and human nature—if I said all that, you’d want to read this book, wouldn’t you?Good, glad to hear it, because American Copper by Shann Ray is all this, and more. And if you think I’m overstating the qualities of this novel set in Montana, well then my dear friend, it’s obvious you haven’t read it. I’m here to help you correct that oversight.American Copper has a huge timesweep, from the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the years just before World War II, but it is, at heart, an intimate novel. It traces the intertwined lives of three individuals: Evelynn Lowry, daughter of a copper baron who all but owns the city of Butte, Montana; William Black Kettle, a Native American who works the rodeo circuit and longs for peace in the midst of violence; and a bear of a man named Middie who ends up working as a bouncer on a passenger train.American Copper is a stunning work of fiction which begs the reader to sit quietly, block the loud static of everyday living, and slip into the gulfstream of an author’s sure-handed prose which is at once muscular and gentle. Ray himself says it best in this sentence lifted from the pages of the novel: "The language in his mouth was stark and eloquent, warrior-like one minute but in the next moment as light-filled as water, and as lovely."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Significant Work By John L. Moore This lovely work floats like its symbolic butterfly to gently take its place among the best of Montana literature. It straddles the fine line between fierce reality and romantic myth while giving the readers characters we deeply care about. The knowledge of the West is there and while the theme eases close to sentimentality, it stays restrained. A sure hand on the reins. The proper bit in the mouth. This first novel oozes the character of the author. With Shann Ray one can be guaranteed diamond-brilliant prose and redemption in both suffering and joy.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. I felt that I was reading an epic poem, like The Odyssey By Mystic by the Lake This book was definitely different from what I expected. Instead of a straight-up novel, I felt that I was reading an epic poem, like The Odyssey. The writing was like poetry, often with short and staccato lines, and not even full sentences. The characters were nothing like I had encountered before: the strong-willed and eventually independent white woman; the loving Native American; and the bruiser German-American man. However, as this was a poem of sorts, I felt it didn't answer the practical questions I was asking. 1) What happened to Josef Lowry's huge fortune? It seemed that Eve turned her back on it. So what happened to it in the end? 2) Were there actual cases of white women marrying Native American men in those days and going to live with their tribes? How were their children raised? What would happen to Eve's and William's children? Would they eventually inherit Josef's fortune?
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