Pete Fromm, Author . Picador $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-30775-2
Spirited and sharply intelligent, if sometimes farfetched, this knowing coming-of-age story follows Lucy Diamond of Great Falls, Mont., for two years, from 14 to 16. They're turbulent years, but more so for Lucy because her parents, themselves...
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Pete Fromm, Author Lyons Press $20 (144p) ISBN 978-1-55821-744-7
Two-time Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association award-winner Fromm (Dry Rain) tries hard to rise above his single narrative obsession--fishing trips as a bonding device--in the efficient 10 stories of his latest collection. Too often, though, the
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Pete Fromm, Author John Daniel & Company Books $9.95 (163p) ISBN 978-0-936784-95-3
For a few of the characters in Fromm's expert first collection of stories, the American West is a region of the imagination, a place of myths born from storytelling and old photographs. A grandmother in the title piece longs to see the virgin...
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Pete Fromm, Author Stackpole Books $19.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-8117-0937-8
Fromm ( Indian Creek Chronicles ) writes with confidence and knowledge about a variety of experiences in this collection of 18 stories, all set against a vivid background of hunting and fishing. The relationship between fathers and sons is a common...
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Pete Fromm, Author Picador USA $23 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-20936-0
One of the hapless teenage males in short story writer Fromm's latest collection (after Blood Knot) is deserted by his girlfriend, who believes he has raped her. As Fromm puts it, in ""Willowy-Wisps"": ""He thought of Margie racing down some road in
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Pete Fromm, Author Picador USA $23 (305p) ISBN 978-0-312-20933-9
The award-winning author of nonfiction (Indian Creek Chronicle, etc.) and several story collections (Dry Rain, etc.), Fromm delivers a quiet but gripping debut whose themes are family, baseball and two kinds of talent--frustrated and flourishing. As
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Pete Fromm, Author Lyons Press $21.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-55821-205-3
It was an act of bravado that prompted 19-year-old Fromm to leave college and accept a winter job with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game in 1990. His assignment was to check daily on two million salmon eggs planted in a channel between the...
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Pete Fromm, Author Scholastic $14.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-590-46525-0
A near-tragic accident redefines the relationship between identical twins in this uneven novel. Playing with a group of friends, 12-year-old brothers Thad and Eli Martin indulge in a forbidden game of monkey tag, which involves swinging hand-over-han
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Pete Fromm, Author Lyons Press $22.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-55821-554-2
Fallible, breakable human beings populate this noteworthy collection of stories by the author of Indian Creek Chronicles, which won the 1994 Northwest Booksellers Award. In 16 stories, Fromm matches the geographic landscape of the American West to...
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Pete Fromm. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-59709-538-9
Fromm’s latest novel (after As Cool As I Am) is a remarkable depiction of the effects of multiple sclerosis on a young woman and her husband. Maddy and Dalt meet while working for white-water rafting companies in Wyoming, and fall headlong in love....
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Pete Fromm. Counterpoint, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-64009-177-1
Fromm (As Cool As I Am) pulls at the heart strings with the poignant tale of a father, who just having lost his wife in childbirth, must quickly learn to raise his infant daughter, Midge, alone. Trapped in the Montana fixer-upper he and his wife...
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