Augusta Locke
By: William Haywood Henderson.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Women pioneers -- Fiction; Wilderness areas -- Fiction; Women -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Novelist William Haywod Henderson has won acclaim for his depictions of land and nature and his ability to bring the American West to vivid life. Of his most recent novel, The Rest of the Earth, Annie Proulx remarked that Henderson "writes some of the most evocative and transcendently beautiful prose in contemporary American literature." Redolent with myth, humor, strange landscapes, and stark reality, Henderson's new novel tells the story of Augusta Locke, a troubled yet spirited woman, as she raises her daughter in the deserts of Wyoming. Spanning the twentieth century, Augusta's extraordinary challenges play out themes of love and loss, home and family, redemption and reconciliation."--Publisher's website.

This novel tells of one woman's troubled yet spirited life as she raises her daughter in the deserts and lonely ranges of Wyoming.