The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays

by Stanley Crawford

Book Overview

This book is like Stanley Crawford's floor. The floor began more than thirty years ago when Crawford moved his family to New Mexico after selling movie rights to his first novel. The history of their home-made house is written in the hand-plastered floor, patched and sealed over the years. At first a reminder of how little he and his wife knew about working with mud, the floor has become beautiful in the years since 1971. It embodies their lives,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826328571
• ISBN13: 9780826328571
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Way better than "Mayordomo"

Unlike Stanley Crawford's almost cripplingly boring book "Mayordomo," "The River in Winter" is a collection of essays, and is actually interesting to read. I particularly like his essay on the Sandia Mountains village of San Antonio, the village's shotgun-wielding struggle to stop rampant development, and the village's acequia or irrigation ditch. So did some UNM students several years ago, because they blatantly plagiarized several passages from that essay for a paper they published entitled "Agua, Tierra, y Vida." Fans of New Mexico, small town life, and a simpler way of living will find a lot here to enjoy.