Description

Larry Watson's best-selling book Montana, 1948 was heralded as a "thing of beauty" (Susan Petro, Bay Area Chronicle), a prize winning evocation of the moment, a location, and a household. Today Watson results to Montana, 1948's huge scenery with a prequel that illuminates the Hayden family's early years and the conditions that resulted in the activities of Montana, 1948. With all the precision of a master storyteller, Watson goes effortlessly one of the powerful and hard-bitten people which make up the Hayden family, and along the way starts an evocative screen around the very center of the American West.