Temperance Creek, Pamela Royes
Temperance Creek, Pamela Royes
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Temperance Creek
A Memoir

Author: Pamela Royes, Teresa Jordan

Narrator: Amy Melissa Bentley

Unabridged: 12 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/24/2017


Synopsis

In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents' homes. This was an act of nature, bigger than ourselves. In the austere beauty and natural reality of Hell's Canyon of Eastern Oregon, one hundred miles from pavement, Pam, unable to identify with her parent's world and looking for deeper pathways has a chance encounter with returning Vietnam warrior Skip Royes. Skip, looking for a bridge from survival back to connection, introduces Pam to the vanishing culture of the wandering shepherd and together they embark on a four-year sojourn into the wilderness. From the back of a horse, Pam leads her packstring of listeners from overlook to water crossing, down trails two thousand years old, and from the vantages she chooses for us, we feel the edges of our own experiences. It is a memoir of falling in love with a place and a man and the price extracted for that love.

Written with deep lyricism, Temperance Creek is a work of haunting beauty, fresh and irreverent and rooted in the grit and pleasure of daily life. This is Pam's story, but the courage and truth in the telling is part of our human experience. Seen through a slower more primary mirror, one not so crowded with objectivity, Pam's memoir, is a kind of home-coming, a family reunion for shooting stars.

About Pamela Royes

Pamela Royes and her husband raise cattle and hay. They have two children and three grandchildren. She is currently working on a book of fiction. They live in Joseph, Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Terri

I have been waiting for my next favorite read and this is it. The prose is breathtakingly beautiful and quite honestly, not what I was expecting. Pamela is looking for something more in life, freer, more honest, less complicated. When Skip ask Pam after having met her a few days before, “Why don’t y......more

Goodreads review by Joyce

Lovely, lyrical writing about an era and people in Wallowa County. I'll confess--I read with Pam Royes at a Fishtrap Fireside, one of the selections from this book. Hearing that reading made me want to buy the book. It also features an epic tale about two of my friends. But the writing itself drives......more

Goodreads review by Melani

Nearly 13 years ago my husband I and spent part of our honeymoon camping trip to Wallowas, Eagle Cap, Imnaha Valley and Hells Canyon. There’s something unique and special there and I couldn’t ever describe it in a way that did it justice – that turned out to be Royes’ job. She describes the land in......more