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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Where the Sea Used to Be about Dudley's, Loyal, Mountains with the genre: Literature & Fiction, United States.
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conversations.value: the author has already proved himself to be a master of the short form, producing both stellar fiction (<a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395877474/${0}"> In the Loyal Mountains </a>) and eloquent polemical pieces (<a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395877466/${0}"> The Book of Yaak </a>). The loose and baggy expanse of the novel, however, is new terrain for him. In an Amazon.com interview, the author described his struggles with Where the Sea Used to Be , which involved 14 years of intermittent labor and thousands of discarded pages. the author's first novel is a massive work. Encapsulating motifs from his entire career, it revolves around an elaborate love triangle (or perhaps quadrangle), the permutations of which would take a short pamphlet to describe. On the most basic level, however, there's Old Dudley, a crusty petroleum geologist; his daughter Mel, who's spent the last two decades studying wolves in Montana's Swan Valley; Matthew, a former protg of Dudley's; and Wallis, Dudley's current protg, who he's sent to the valley in search of oil, oil, and more oil.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Reading, Reading.
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conversations.value: the author has already proved himself to be a master of the short form, producing both stellar fiction (<a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395877474/${0}"> In the Loyal Mountains </a>) and eloquent polemical pieces (<a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395877466/${0}"> The Book of Yaak </a>). The loose and baggy expanse of the novel, however, is new terrain for him. In an Amazon. com interview, the author described his struggles with Where the Sea Used to Be , which involved 14 years of intermittent labor and thousands of discarded pages. Reading the book, it's easy to see why. the author's first novel is a massive work. Encapsulating motifs from his entire career, it revolves around an elaborate love triangle (or perhaps quadrangle), the permutations of which would take a short pamphlet to describe. On the most basic level, however, there's Old Dudley, a crusty petroleum geologist; his daughter Mel, who's spent the last two decades studying wolves in Montana's Swan Valley; Matthew, a former protg of Dudley's; and Wallis, Dudley's current protg, who he's sent to the valley in search of oil, oil, and more oil.