Mountain City

By the end of Gregory Martin's unsentimental but affecting memoir, only thirty-one people live in remote Mountain City, Nevada, and none of them are children. The town's abandoned mines are testimony to the cycle of promise, exploitation, abandonment, and attrition that has been the repeated story of the West. Yet the comings and goings at Tremewan's, the general store Martin's family has run for more than forty years, reveal a remarkably vibrant community that includes salty widows, Native Americans from a nearby reservation, and a number of Martin's deeply idiosyncratic Basque-descended relatives. Martin observes them as they persist in a difficult but rewarding existence and celebrates, with neither pity nor regret, the large and small dramas of their lives and their stubborn attachment to a place that seems likely to disappear in his lifetime.

About the author

Gregory Martin is a professional writer and editor living in Portland, Oregon. Flint's Fist is his first novel, an homage to Robert Louis Stevenson and Daniel Defoe, who first inspired him to spin stories of his own about the Long Ago with threads of true history woven in.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Martin
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2001
• EAN: 9780865476165
• ISBN: 978-0-86547-616-5
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous