Clearcut (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400079698)

Set in the gloriously rugged backwoods of the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, Nina Shengold's gripping debut novel follows three people in search of new lives deep into uncharted terrain of the body and heart.

When rough-hewn loner Earley Ritter picks up a hitchhiker one rainy night, he can't imagine how much it will change his life. A "shake-rat" who salvages cedar stumps left when loggers clearcut, Earley seems to have little in common with Reed Alton, a gifted Berkeley dropout. But when Earley meets Zan, the fiery and mysterious woman Reed has been following, erotic sparks fly in unexpected directions. Thrown together in the splendid isolation of the woods, with passions and tensions mounting, the unlikely trio achieves a fragile balance that--like their idyllic patch of forest--will be shattered by violence. At once a page-turning psychological drama and a colorful, wildly comic recreation of a lost time and place, Clearcut explores the boundaries that divide us, and what it takes to cross them.

Author: Nina Shengold
ISBN-10: 1400079691
ISBN-13: 9781400079698
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/09/2005
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2005 pg. 504
Publishers Weekly 07/11/2005 pg. 63
Library Journal 07/01/2005 pg. 71
Ingram Advance 08/01/2005 pg. 38
Entertainment Weekly 08/12/2005 pg. 82
Library Journal 07/15/2005