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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the bestselling author of "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" comes theunforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oil fields and openplains of Wyoming.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A heartrending story of the human spirit from the author of the bestselling <i>Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight</i></b> <p/> Alexandra Fuller returns with the unforgettable true story of Colton H. Bryant, a soulful boy with a mustang-taming heart who comes of age in the oil fields and open plains of Wyoming. After surviving a sometimes cruel adolescence with his own brand of optimistic goofiness, Colton goes to work on an oil rig-and there the biggest heart in the world can't save him from the new, unkind greed that has possessed his beloved Wyoming during the latest boom. <p/> Colton's story could not be told without telling of the land that grew him, where the great high plains meet the Rocky Mountains to create a vista of lonely beauty. It is here that the existence of one boy is a true story as deeply moving as the life that inspired it.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Fuller's] book-set in her new home, the high plains of Wyoming-hangs so faultlessly on its high-altitude, big-sky, oildrilling bones that it seems not so much to have been written as uncovered by the wind and weather of the American north-west.<br> -<i>The Economist</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969 and in 1972 she moved with her family to a farm in Rhodesia. After that country's civil war in 1981, the Fullers moved first to Malawi, then to Zambia. Fuller received a B.A. from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. She is the author of <i>Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood</i>, a national bestseller, a <i>New York Times </i> Notable Book of 2002, and a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, and <i>Scribbling the Cat</i>, winner of the 2005 Ulysses Award for Art of Reportage. Fuller lives in Wyoming with her husband and children.

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