Stephen Harrigan is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning novels The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton, the critically acclaimed essay collection The Eye of the Mammoth, and Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly and a faculty fellow at the University of Texas's Michener Center for Writers.
Stephen Harrigan makes every page of his book seem new . . . When
Sam, Libby, and Rick make their climactic dive into the well’s
nether passages, the suspense functions on several levels at once.
Will they come out alive? How is the triangle going to resolve
itself? Can the novelist succeed in fusing his several strands of
plot and character with a single blaze of action?
My conscience won’t let me answer the first two questions in
the presence of anyone inclined to read the book, but I have no
qualms about the third: yes, indeed. (Washington Post) The suspense
is as pressurized as the atmosphere 150 feet below the surface.
Jacob’s Well delivers satisfaction from beginning to end. The
action sequences are authentic and taut. The love affairs and the
nuances of emotion between the three protagonists ring painfully
true. (St. Louis Globe-Democrat) Jacob’s Well is one of the finest
novels to be written in Texas in the last ten years. Exquisitely
painful at times, Stephen Harrigan’s second novel is also deeply
humane-a thoughtful and thought-provoking story of how three
individuals make peace with themselves, each other, and the world
around them. (San Antonio Express-News) A significant work by an
author whose talents, like the depths of Jacob’s Well itself, seem
limitless. (United Press International) An emotionally resonant
novel. (Newsweek) At times deeply moving and wise, this novel
reveals Harrigan’s increasing maturity as a novelist. (Publishers
Weekly)
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