Gregory Martin (2)
Autore di Mountain City
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Gregory Martin has a M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arizona. He lives with his wife & son in Seattle. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Mountain City has some of the most extreme weather in the lower 48. Just 8 miles down into the valley, temps can and have reached as low as -60 degrees. Winter storms are so severe that you wait to follow a plow truck down the highway, and if you are 15 minutes behind you are subject to get stranded. The wind blows up to 60 miles an hour, blowing the snow into deep snow drifts within 5 minutes.
This is the authors story of his experiences spending summers as a youth, and summer and winter holidays during his college years with his aging grandparents and other family members in Mountain City, and helping to run the family grocery story, Tremewan's Store.
This store was the lifeblood of the town and all surrounding towns for miles around, as it was the only grocery store to sell groceries and alcohol off the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, which was 13 miles away. Elko, 84 miles from Mountain City, was the nearest "big" city with all amentities with a hospital, funeral, school, nursing home, etc...… (altro)