Lost Mountain by Anne Coray Paperback Book 9781513264455

The searing debut novel of poet and writer Anne Coray Lost Mountain is an impassioned story of love loss environment and politics against a landscape facing threat of destructionquotAnne Coray the author of three poetry collections has brought her observational and writing skills to fiction that demonstrates both her attention to language and her passion for her home place Lost Mountain is many things a love story between the two main characters a portrait of a small and isolated community a mystery a paean to salmon and lives that surround salmon a notverydisguised critique of a megamine project and an example of ecofictionenvironmentally conscious literaturequotAnchorage Daily NewsWhen news of an openpit mining project hits the remote Alaskan hometown of Whetstone Cove young widow Dehlia Melven barely takes in the towns nervous chatter The Ziggurat corporation promises the mine will be fifteen times larger than all the mines in Alaska combined but Dehlias thoughts are consumed by the loss of her late husband and the future of her security At least the new arrival of solar energy expert Alan Lamb brings a distraction and a different dynamic to the small communityone thats...