The RI Center for the Book at Providence Public Library's 2009 selection . . .
Five Skies
by Ron Carlson
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About Five Skies
Men at work Physical labor leads to healing in Reading Across Rhode Island’s 2009 book selection from The Newport Mercury
“A life-changing work of fiction…FIVE SKIES makes every moment seem pivotal.” —Los Angeles Times“Bluntly beautiful and unnerving… Most impressive… is Carlson’s evocation of the Western landscape, especially its immensely variable sky… FIVE SKIES is like one of those heartbreaking Raymond Carver stories in which a luckless character catches a glimpse of something better, a small moment of rightness about the world.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Carlson’s focus is transporting, absorbing. It shakes you from stupor, strips you down. He understands that most of us live in a world of enervating crap, whether in the cliffs of Idaho or the canyons of the city. And FIVE SKIES offers a longed-for blueprint of the antidote…”—Esquire
“Carlson's style—low-key, deliberate, reminiscent of both early Hemingway and contemporary James Salter—possesses the kind of serene assurance that disdains the show-offy. Carlson doesn't need it, since he can turn even a shopping list into a poem.” —The Washington Post
“Carlson’s beautifully crafted and emotionally wrenching novel about nonverbal but deep-feeling males in flyover country is more refreshing than an ice-cold Coors. [An] A.” --Entertainment Weekly (An EW Pick)
Rhode Island literary group taps 'Five Skies' as state read
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