Correcting the Landscape - A Novel

The winner of Barbara Kingsolver''s Bellwether Prize for a work of socially and politically engaged fiction, Correcting the Landscape follows the fate of an Alaskan newspaper editor as he fights the degradation of the natural environment at the hands of big business, attempts to solve a local murder mystery, and embarks on a budding romance with one of his reporters. Gus Traynor is the editor of a local newspaper whose idealism has been consistently tested but remains mostly intact. He prides himself on the independence of his spirit. So when big business threatens the Alaskan wilderness, Gus calls on the help of his best friend, a normally self-serving developer who helps Gus take on the forces of progress. ''Driven by characters containing enough flaws to make the reader care about them, this intelligent novel deftly reveals the power of individual commitment against money and personal connections powerful enough to destroy.'' -Denver Post

About the author

Marjorie Kowalski Cole's poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals, including Chattahoochee Review and Alaska Quarterly Review. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, American Poetry Review, and Poets & Writers. She lives in Ester, Alaska, with her husband, Pat Lambert.

Product details

• Authors: Marjorie Kowalski Cole
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.12.2006
• EAN: 9780060786076
• ISBN: 978-0-06-078607-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Indigenous, FICTION: General, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: LITERATURE, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: World Literature / American / General