Galvin makes Snipes just about the nastiest man alive, a former combat pilot and a war lover. He is admittedly guilty of the fatal roping, but is fondly described as a ''big, ugly, happy, hippie cowboy.''
Named Mike Arans, one the book's four central figures. The rest of the book, which explains why the killing took place and lovingly documents a small rancher's world, is presented in chronologically jumbled episodes, many with dates rangingīack and forth from 1963 to 1993, a few simply dated ''Once.'' Galvin does distinguish the actual chase scenes by titling them, in correct sequence, after the days of the week. The chase is only a thread of plot to hold things together. starts the story rolling on a chase across a lot of wild Wyoming landscape. He is a real-estate developer, and his death - in the first chapter he is lassoed off his moving ATV by an irate cowboy The greedy modern world is to blame, as always.īut there is a local Snopes in the tall grass, and by no coincidence, one imagines, his name is Snipes. Now, in ''Fencing the Sky,'' Galvin's first novel, those 40-acre parcels and their new owners are actively chopping up his old home on the range. Roamed free all our lives was about to be sawed up and nailed down into 40-acre parcels,'' one of the book's characters says. Meadow,'' he admiringly mythologizes some high-range landscape near the Colorado-Wyoming border and the ranchers and cowboys who lived there - and, with increasing difficulty, still do. In verse, as well as in a remarkable book of prose called ''The $23.Īmes Galvin is a celebrated poet who can wonderfully convey the poetry of earth. By TIMOTHY FOOTEĪ John MacRae Book/Henry Holt & Company. A mythic figure rides the range, deep in thought and bubble gum.
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