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THE LATEST RELEASE IN THE FURNASS SERIES
A Book of Days — here’s a video introduction to the latest book in Richard Snodgrass’ Books of Furnass Series. Please note: The video carries the title SHADOW OF THE VALLEY, which was the earlier title for A BOOK OF DAYS. To learn more about A Book of Days click here.
Critical Acclaim
For Richard Snodgrass’ Novels
ACROSS THE RIVER
The writing is beautiful. The complex characters, faced daily with choices between their deepest desires and their integrity, in the midst of war, make compelling reading. This book stands alone, while stoking the desire for rest of the books in the series.
ACROSS THE RIVER
A vivid and intensely personal story couched within the chaos, madness and sacrifice of the Civil War.
ACROSS THE RIVER
A beautiful historical novel that proves history is created and changed by individuals, not just events.
ALL FALL DOWN
An immersive murder mystery wrapped in an emotionally astute look at the burden of a town’s moral history.
ALL FALL DOWN
Snodgrass’ writing is unpretentious but poetically evocative, an ambitious attempt to combine a realistic portrayal of a gritty working-class town with literary style.
SOME RISE
...An artistically daring examination of the line that separates love from fanatical possession.
SOME RISE
Richard Snodgrass’ gift for characterization, plotting, and dialogue make Some Rise one of the most engaging family sagas/literary mysteries we’ve read in years.
THE BUILDING
...artistically unflinching and morally unsentimental.
THE BUILDING
The pace is unhurried but inexorable, a relentless march toward a shocking conclusion.
THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE BACK YARD
Observe this mysterious book and be changed.
THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE BACK YARD
A haunting, seductive, original story.
Richard
Snodgrass
Author &
Photographer
In 1989, Viking published Snodgrass’s novel There’s Something in the Back Yard to critical acclaim: “Observe this mysterious book and be changed,” wrote Jack Stephens in the Washington Post Book World. Snodgrass is also the author of An Uncommon Field: The Flight 93 Temporary Memorial, published in September of 2011 by Carnegie Mellon University Press, and Kitchen Things: An Album of Vintage Utensils and Farm Kitchen Recipes, published in 2013 by Skyhorse and named one of the year’s “best books to get you thinking about food” by the Associated Press.
Richard Snodgrass lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his wife Marty and two indomitable female tuxedo cats, raised from feral kittens, named Frankie and Becca.
Proust on Love and How Our Intellect Blinds Us to the Wisdom of the Heart
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“That which one has set oneself to do, one should not relinquish on the grounds of absence of mind or distraction.”Richard Diebenkorn (1922 - 1993) Still Life with Orange Peel II, 1955
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