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2007 Fiction Winner - Washington Writers’ Publishing House
Bronze Winner - ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award in General Fiction 2007
Nominated for Texas Institute of Letters’ Steven Turner Award for Best Work of FirstFiction 2007
The Montserrat Review’s Best Books for Summer Reading 2008
Recommended by Small Press Distributors 2007
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A young woman stands naked in the
South Texas dark, silenced by a rich man’s bargain—a roll in the desert for her boyfriend’s release from jail. Miles away, a silent old man climbs into his secret hole, burdened by his Great War bargain—his
voice for life with his beloved. On this night in April 1963,
the burden of silence passes from old to young on a landscape
filled with racial violence. The debut novel of Texas native
Elizabeth Bruce, And
Silent Left the Place, is a lyric tale of violence, redemption,
and love reclaimed in the cruel, dry land of Texas.
“Bruce’s characters leap off the page at you, they have vividness and substance, and the result, reading her work, is that one feels the life there…a deeply gifted writer…” Richard Bausch |
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