Cutting Stone Author:Janet Burroway A novel set around a footnote of American history - the stopover in 1914 of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, in the small junction town of Bowie, Arizona, after he had overthrown the Mexican president. — This compelling portrait of a frontier community graced by the transforming powers of the desert is a romantic, panoramic western of exceptio... more »nal sensibility and depth. A wealthy easterner, Eleanor, is at first appalled and then slowly seduced by the grandeur of the desert landscape and the people who inhabit it.
Escaping from a loveless marriage, Eleanor heads west and meets up with Frank, a rugged rancher who desires another man's wife; Lloyd, Frank's hot-headed younger brother; and Maria, a Mexican woman.« less