Artist Series - Bruce Wilson
Schedule
Sat Nov 09 2024 at 10:30 am to 04:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Bisbee Books & Music | Bisbee, AZ
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Join us as Bisbee Books & Music welcomes back author Bruce Wilson to our Bisbee Artist Series. Bruce is an Assistant Professor of History at Western New Mexico University in Silver City. He is the author of the prize-winning novel, Death in the Black Patch (NM-AZ Book Award-Finalist and the Laramie Book Award-First Place for Western Fiction) and his newly released spin-off, No Place That Far (recently announced as the winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Historical Fiction-Arizona.)
Death in the Black Patch
In the spring of 1906 in Kentucky, Wes Wilson stands in his freshly plowed field gazing at furrows that will soon be filled with young dark-leaf tobacco plants. This crop is his life's blood, the product that allows him to feed and clothe his family. Wes is determined that nothing-not the powerful monopoly trying to drive prices down, or the growers' association demanding that farmers hold back their crops-will stand in his way. But the secrets and lies which plague the community smother Wes as he struggles to decide whether he should join the Association or sell out to the tobacco company. In the days that follow, Wes realizes that he's a threat to his family's peace. So, like the Night Riders who wear masks to hide their identity, he puts on a mask of control to hide his troubled mind. Wes is blind to the dangers he faces-the devious tobacco buyer; the ever-present Night Riders; and the cousin who is hiding a deadly secret- grow more intense the longer he takes to decide what to do with his crop. The conflict erupts and soon rages out of control with a result both surprising and tragic. This description may be from another edition of this product.
No Place That Far
It’s 1907, and J.D. Hooper is a fixer…he does bad things for powerful men in Kentucky, Memphis, and El Paso/Juarez. When he gets in trouble in those places, he runs. Hounded by the authorities and a persistent railroad detective, he sneaks into the U.S. at Naco and starts all over in Bisbee. By 1908, with a new name J.D. makes some friends and continues doing his fixing. When the detective shows up in the southwest mining town, a cornered J.D. feels trapped and tragedy is the result.
A frequent visitor to Bisbee and a great fan of this historic mining town, Wilson has crafted “a deftly scripted and fully absorbing read from cover to cover.”—Midwest Book Review.
Learn more about Bruce at: https://www.facebook.com/bruce.wilson.writes
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Bisbee Books & Music, 2 Main St, Bisbee, AZ 85603-9901, United States,Bisbee, ArizonaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
