Cutting Stone
1992
First Published
3.55
Average Rating
404
Number of Pages
At first apalled by the Arizona desert town of Bowie, transplanted easterner Eleanor Poindexter is soon seduced by its primitive landscape and its inhabitants. By the author of The Buzzards and Raw Silk. Tour.
Avg Rating
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Author
Janet Burroway
Author · 9 books
Janet Burroway is the author of seven novels including The Buzzards, Raw Silk (runner up for the national Book award), Opening Nights, and Cutting Stone; a volume of poetry, Material Goods; a collection of essays, Embalming Mom; and two children's books, The Truck on the Track and The Giant Jam Sandwich. Her most recent plays, Medea With Child, Sweepstakes, Division of Property, and Parts of Speech, have received readings and productions in New York, London, San Francisco, Hollywood, and various regional theatres. Her Writing Fiction is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and a multi-genre textbook, Imaginative Writing, appeared in 2002. A B.A. from Barnard College and M.A. from Cambridge University, England, she was Yale School of Drama RCA-NBC Fellow 1960-61, and is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Florida State University in Tallahassee.
