Mountain City
by Gregory Martin
North Point Press; September 2001

Description:
Tucked away in the northern reaches of Nevada, the small boom-and-bust mining town of Mountain City may seem like a ghostly speck on a map, but for Martin it is the quickened heart of the universe. In this gorgeously written, meticulously observed memoir, he probes the lingering old age of the town he romped in as a child and continues to visit.

The center of the story, and of the town, is Tremewan's, the general store run by Martin's extended family, which serves the 30-odd residents of Mountain City and others from the outlying areas.

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Also by this author:
Bruegel; Park South Books; July 1985

Flemish School, 1600-1900 (National Gallery Publications); Yale University Press; December 1991

Canaletto; Newbury Books; June 1971

 

 

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