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MacGregor's Lantern
Corinne Joy Brown. Thorndike Five Star Press: 2003 (paperback).
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"As an author, I have found that writing historical fiction allows me to explore the past for the benefit of the present. My characters' responses to the times echo our own reactions to change, giving me a wide range of opportunities to depict just how circumstance and character shape individual destiny.
My novel, MacGregor's Lantern, (Thorndike/FiveStar Press--a trilogy) is set in 1889 in Colorado and Wyoming and is based on the fall of the Scottish and English cattle barons and the end of the free range. The story, whose protagonist is a woman, embraces many themes; the old world in the new; man against nature, and most importantly, the challenge of self-determination over living a prescribed life. The purpose of the novel is the author's own attempt to understand the many aspects of self-transformation and empowerment, both through life experience and lessons of the heart.
As a writer for western media and a Colorado native, I believe the setting of the frontier west is rich with fact and myth, yet to be told in exciting new ways. A member of Women Writing the West, Western Writers of America, and the Denver Women's Press Club, I am also an avid reader. The creator of "Book Lovers, Ink," a S.E. Denver book club, I always cherish the opportunity to confer with other authors on process and intent. Now, as an author, it would be a pleasure to meet with other book clubs."
--Corinne Joy Brown
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