Nina Revoyr is the author of four previous novels, including The Age of Dreaming, which was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize; Southland, a Los Angeles Times best seller and "Best Book" of 2003; and Wingshooters, which won an Indie Booksellers' Choice Award and was selected by O, The Oprah Magazine as one of "10 Titles to Pick Up Now." Revoyr lives and works in Los Angeles. Lost Canyon is her latest novel.
Revoyr [is] an edgy and spellbinding writer with an uncanny gift
for aligning human struggles with nature's glory and perils . . . .
With ravishing descriptions of the magnificent landscape,
unrelenting suspense, incisive psychology, and shrewd perspectives
on matters of race and gender, Revoyr has created a gripping tale
of unintended adventure and profound transformation.-- "Booklist,
Starred Review"
Even at its deadliest, Revoyr makes the high altitude seem
mesmerizing. . . . Revoyr has created characters we care for,
issues we need to think about, and vistas that linger, making
reading her book almost as much of a rush as scaling the sheer, icy
rock of the Sierra Nevada.
-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
Revoyr travels LA's patchwork neighborhoods--delineating gangs and
money, color and prejudice--and nicely sketches 'the grand, untamed
Sierra.' Like Deliverance, a tense . . . morality tale formed in
the crucible of physical duress.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
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