Gary Schanbacher
Gary Schanbacher was educated at Randolph-Macon College, Old
Dominion University, and the University of Colorado, where he earned his
PhD in economics. He received a PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention and won the Colorado Book Award, the High Plains
First Book Award, and the Eric Hoffer General Fiction Award for his short story collection, Migration Patterns. Schanbacker was a Hemingway Fellow at Ucross Foundation, serves on the
board of directors of Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and is a founding partner of the Writers Block, a writing
community in Denver.
All Books By Gary Schanbacher
Crossing Purgatory
- By: Gary Schanbacher
- Narrator: William Dufris
- Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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In spring of 1858, Thompson Grey, a young farmer, travels to his father’s estate seeking funds to expand his holdings. Far overstaying his visit, he returns home to find that his absence has contributed to a devastating family tragedy. Haunted by remorse, Thompson abandons his farm and begins a westward exile in the attempt to outpace his grief. Unwittingly, he finds himself at journey’s end in the one place where his strongest temptations are able to overtake him and once again put him to the test. Set against the backdrop of the frontier during the years just preceding the Civil War, Crossing Purgatory tells a story of unprincipled ambition, guilt, and the price one man is willing to pay for atonement.
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