Part I
Grass Valley

Part II
New Almaden

Part III
Santa Cruz

Part IV
Leadville

Part V
Michoacán

Part VI
On the Bough
"Cause for celebration . . . A superb novel with an amplitude of scale and richness of detail altogether uncommon in contemporary fiction."
—The Atlantic Montly

"Brilliant . . . Two stories, past and present, merge to produce what important fiction must: a sense of the enchantment of life."
—Los Angeles Times

"A fine novel, engrossing and mature . . . for when all is said individual lives are very much like bits of detritus, rolling down from the high places of stress and emotion until they reach that place where the tumbling and falling stops and they find their angle of repose. To chronicle this movement as well as this novel does is high art—and first-rate writing."
—San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction