Pete Fromm

The author relates his experiences when he took a job with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to watch millions of salmon eggs one winter in an isolated area of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

A Winter Alone in the Wilderness

Indian Creek Chronicles

At twenty years old, Pete Fromm heard of a job babysitting salmon eggs, seven winter months alone in a tent in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Leaping at this chance to be a mountain man, with no experience in the wilds, he left the world. Thirteen years later, he published his beloved memoir of that winter, Indian Creek Chronicles —Into the Wild with a twist. Twenty five years later, he was asked to return to the wilderness to babysit more fish eggs. But no longer a footloose twenty year old, at forty-five, he was the father of two young sons. He left again, alone, straight into the heart of Montana’s Bob Marshall wilderness, walking a daily ten mile loop to his fish eggs through deer and elk and the highest density of grizzly bears in the lower 48 states. The Names of the Stars is not only a story of wilderness and bears but also a trek through a life lived at its edges, showing how an impulsive kid transformed into a father without losing his love for the wilds. From loon calls echoing across Northwood lakes to the grim realities of life guarding in the Nevada desert, through the isolation of Indian Creek and years spent running the Snake and Rio Grande as a river ranger, Pete seeks out the source of this passion for wildness, as well as explores fatherhood and mortality and all the costs and risks and rewards of life lived on its own terms.

A Life in the Wilds

The Names of the Stars

Maddy s'était juré de ne jamais sortir avec un garçon du même âge qu'elle, encore moins avec un guide de rivière. Mais voilà Dalt, et il est parfait. A vingt ans, Maddy et Dalt s'embarquent dans une histoire d'amour qui durera toute leur vie. Mariés sur les berges de la Buffalo Fork, dans le Wyoming, devenus tous deux guides de pêche, ils vivent leur passion à cent à l'heure et fondent leur entreprise de rafting dans l'Oregon. Mais lorsque Maddy, frappée de vertiges, apprend qu'elle est enceinte et se voit en même temps diagnostiquer une sclérose en plaques, le couple se rend compte que l'aventure ne fait que commencer. Mon désir le plus ardent est le portrait d'un couple ancré dans le temps présent qui affronte avec courage et humour les épreuves de la vie. Avec sa voix pleine d'énergie, tout à la fois drôle et romantique, Pete Fromm nous offre une histoire d'amour inoubliable.

Mon désir le plus ardent

The author relates his experiences of when he took a job with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to watch 2 1/2 million salmon eggs one winter in an isolated area of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness

A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness

Comment tout a commencé

A Novel

As Cool As I Am

Recounts Dalton and Maddy's relationship, told from Maddy's perspective, as they meet, marry, and live their lives struggling with job loss, difficulties getting pregnant, and a devastating diagnosis.

If Not for This

David Ray

On the Road in America

Midnight Mind Number Three

Stories deal with hunting and fishing, long car trips through open landscape, and relationships in the American West

Stories

The Tall Uncut

With Blood Knot, award-winning author Pete Fromm confirms his place as one of the outstanding literary talents mining the natural world. In this powerful collection, he lures startling drama from seemingly still surfaces with ten of his finest fishing stories: a wedding in the ice-cold rush of a Montana river symbolizes the promise and fear of marriage, a young 'hood' shows his true colors when he takes his girlfriend's little brother out fishing for muskie, and an eight-year-old boy is moved cross-country, away from his father, only to practice knots on the bedpost in anticipation of their reunion and return to the river. Peter Fromm's tales bond his characters not only to each other but also to nature and the bittersweet truth of their very existence. Although the fish range from the smallest beaver-pond brook trout to the hulking, invisible paddlefish, in the end it's the people - as varied and vulnerable as the fish they pursue - who will draw you into their lives and hold on to a piece of you long after the stories end.

Blood Knot

In this memorable collection of short stories, Pete Fromm reconfirms his reputation as one of the West's most intriguing and talented young writers. Stories about family, love, fealty, commitment, and heroism are all set against the backdrop of the everyday people and events of the American West.

Dry Rain

The author recounts his 7 months working for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game in an isolated location that changed him from a college kid to a man.

Award-winning author Pete Fromm has earned a reputation as one of the brightest literary voices in the wilderness of outdoor writing, and this collection of ten of his finest fishing stories clearly demonstrates why. From unlikely high school friends to a father wishing to keep pace with his ever-changing teenage son to a young boy trying to fit in with his older sister's boyfriend's crowd, each story's characters love fishing, and their fishing experiences are at the core of this book. Although the fish range from the smallest beaver-pond brook trout to the hulking but invisible paddle fish, in the end it's the people -- as varied as the fish they pursue -- who'll draw you into their lives and hold on to a piece of you long after the stories end.

Untitled Novel

A collection of inspired and moving tales from a widely praised writer offers character-driven portraits of people trying to find hope and peace in the midst of their daily difficulties. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Night Swimming

A big–hearted novel “about the grace of friends and family, the true depth and patience of love, and the impossible privilege of what it means to be a father” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You). For young couple Taz and Marnie, their fixer–upper is the symbol of their new life together: a work in progress, the beginning of something grand, all the more so when they learn a baby is on her way. But the blueprint for the perfect life eludes Taz when Marnie dies in childbirth, plummeting the taciturn carpenter headfirst into the new, strange world of fatherhood alone, a landscape of contradictions, of great joy and sorrow. With a supporting cast as rich and compelling as the wild Montana landscape, the novel follows Taz's first two years as a father―a job no one can be fully prepared for. The five–time winner of the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award with more than eleven books in over twenty years, Pete Fromm has become one of the West’s best literary legends. A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How To Do beautifully captures people who end up building a life that is both unexpected and brave.

A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do

Abilene and Austin, a brother and sister feeling stultified by the small-town Texan life imposed on them by their parents, dream of escape, with Abilene becoming desperately and dangerously obsessed with helping her brother become a Major League pitcher. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

How All This Started

As a teenager pretty much left to raise herself, Lucy Diamond is a narrator with a radiant yet guarded heart. As she races at breakneck pace toward womanhood, everything is at stake for her, producing an urgency and dread that she holds at bay with humor and grace. But while Lucy charges ahead, her mother's youth is fading. Simultaneously embracing and resisting their similarities, Fromm reveals both women's emotional vulnerabilities and their deep mutual need. Conveyed through dialogue that is both laugh-aloud-funny and true, Lucy stands out in contemporary literature for her large heart and inimitable grit.

Lucy Diamond, quatorze ans, file à toute allure vers l'âge adulte. Prise entre l'urgence de vivre et la crainte de devoir abandonner ses manières de garçon manqué, Lucy se cherche et joue avec l'amour. Elle découvre par la même occasion que le mariage de ses parents n'est pas aussi solide qu'enfant, elle l'a cru. Son père, bûcheron, est toujours absent. Sa mère, encore jeune, rêve d'une autre vie. Et Lucy entre eux semble soudain un ciment bien fragile. Armée d'une solide dose de culot, elle s'apprête à sortir pour toujours de l'enfance et à décider qui elle est. Quitte à remettre en question l'équilibre de sa vie et à en faire voir de toutes les couleurs à ceux qui l'aiment. Dans un Montana balayé par les vents, c'est la peur au ventre et la joie au coeur que Lucy, pleine de vie, se lance à corps perdu dans des aventures inoubliables.

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