Mary Dove

by RUSHING and Jane Gilmore Rushing

Book Overview

Reared in isolation by her father on the Western prairie, Mary Dove has been taught to fear only one thing. One sparkling October day it happens. The inevitable stranger rides in off the plains, and Mary Dove does what she had always promised her father she would--she shoots. Yet compassion overcomes Mary's fear. In remorse, she tends to the wounded stranger, and what follows is their tentative discovery of each other and a love story that weaves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896725030
• ISBN13: 9780896725034
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Perfectly crafted masterpiece

Beautifully and simply written, you can almost hear the birdsong and feel the wind from Rushing's prose. It's easy to care deeply for the few characters in this book, especially the innocent, honest, and kind Mary Dove. Mary Dove is about society's rules, wilderness being overtaken by civilization, but most of all kindness and love. This is a "non-Western" Western; I highly recommend it.

A terribly enchanting and unforgetable love story.

The likes of this story have never been seen before, and most assuredly will never be forgotten. This is the missing piece of work that now completes the art of literature. The world of human emotion is viewed in it's most powerful, provocative energy for the first time. The ultimate fuel for the hungry soul, "Mary Dove" will ignite a fire inside you, that even time can not extinguish.