Breaking Clean

In this extraordinary literary debut third-generation homesteader Judy Blunt describes her hardscrabble life on the prairies of eastern Montana in prose as big and bold as the landscape.

On a ranch miles from nowhere, Judy Blunt grew up with cattle and snakes, outhouse and isolation, epic blizzards and devastating prairie fires. She also grew up with a set of rules and roles prescribed to her sex long before she was born, a chafing set of strictures she eventually had no choice but to flee, taking along three children and leaving behind a confused husband and the only life she'd ever known. Gritty, lyrical, unsentimental and wise, Breaking Clean is at once informed by the myths of the West and powerful enough to break them down.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/07/2003
ISBN: 9780375701306
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.96w x 0.68d

Review Citations: BookPage 01/01/2003 pg. 26
New York Times 02/09/2003 pg. 28
Kliatt 05/01/2003 pg. 31