Stanley Crawford is also the author of Petroleum Man and four other novels, as well as three books of nonfiction published by the University of New Mexico Press: Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico, A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm, and The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays. He lives in northern New Mexico, USA.
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The Canyon bridges youth and maturity, achieving a perspective that transcends both.--The Rumpus A wonderful portrait of the natural world and of the beginning of childhood's end, written with simplicity, rich humor, poetic depth, and restraint. The writing is very evocative of the time period, with deeply accurate descriptions of everyday things that bespeak the late 1940s. You really believe you are there. Throughout, there is a tranquility to the prose that is hard to match. What is unsaid underneath this tranquility is very powerful. There is also a quiet but lovely humor throughout the book. You just don't get books as well crafted and original as this very often.--John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War