Prairie Fever, Michael Parker
Prairie Fever, Michael Parker
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Prairie Fever

Author: Michael Parker

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Unabridged: 8 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/21/2019

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

"The most beautiful novel I have read in quite some time. The language is that graceful and original, the events and characters that spellbinding and funny and moving; and always the melancholy beauty and mysterious power of the open prairie shine through." —TOM DRURY, author of Pacific

Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the dynamic between two sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. Their connection to each other supersedes all else, until the arrival of a schoolteacher sunders the sisters' relationship as they both begin to fall for him. With poetic intensity and the deadpan humor of Paulette Jiles and Charles Portis, Parker reminds us of how our choices are often driven by our passions. Expansive and intimate, Prairie Fever tells the story of characters tested as much by life on the prairie as they are by their own churning hearts.

"That a love story of this strangeness and rightness can come out of the event of a girl nearly dead in a storm is a testament to the wonder that is Michael Parker's talent." —JANE HAMILTON, author of The Excellent Lombards


About Michael Parker

Michael Parker is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the Oxford American, Runner's World, Men's Journal, and other publications. His work has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize. He is the Nicholas and Nancy Vacc Distinguished Professor in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He lives in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, and Austin, Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill

It would be easy enough to pigeonhole Prairie Fever into a familiar genre: “a tale of the harsh American frontier”, for example, or “the estrangement of two intimately connected sisters over the love of a man.” But after settling into the rhythm and pull of Michael Parker’s story, which admittedly to......more

Why had I never heard of Michael Parker before? PRAIRIE FEVER is one of the most fierce, fearless, open-hearted, and radiant novels written this century, about the earlier part of the last one. It takes place primarily in the rural prairie stretch of Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, the 1920s, where the “coyote......more

I LOVED THIS BOOK!! This great character-driven story was very hard to put down. I enjoyed every word of this book, and this beautiful and original historical fiction by Michael Parker really touched my heart deep into my core. This will land in one of my favorite books of the year for the exquisite......more