title: Ring of Fire
author: Keithley, George
description: 
  
  
  Ring of Fire
   is a fascinating and complex story. It’s a great read, but probably more importantly, it resonates. I’ve found myself mulling over the characters, their actions, their fates, long after finishing the novel.
   —
  Clark Brown
  , author of the novel
   The Disciple
   and the short story collection
  Down in the Valley
  
  George Keithley (is)~ precise and evocative; and I like the fact that he knows the American experience...a western writer who doesn’t write Westerns.
   —
  Wallace Stegner
  , Pulitzer Prize winning author of
  Angle of Repose
  
  Keithley’s talent is remarkable...
   —
  Joyce Carol Oates
  , Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award author
  Not only is George Keithley one of North America’s most soulful writers, he is exquisitely imaginative.
   —
  Al Young
  , California Poet Laureate and author of the best-selling novel
  Sitting Pretty
  
  So stunning...So rare in this day of atrophied emotion and numbed feeling.
   —
  The Washington Post
  
  Keithley explores many themes: the transitoriness of life, the predatory nature of man and animal, the all—encompassing finality of death, and the ability, distinctly human, of transcendence.
   —
  Small Press Review
  