Ceremony in the Lone Tree

"A modern classic... Not the least of this remarkable novel is the capturing of that special Midwestern attitude when passion erupts into horrendous crime in the 'normal' course of life."--Publishers Weekly. "There can be no doubt, I think, that Wright Morris is one of our best novelists... There is a central event in Ceremony in Lone Tree toward which all the action and digression alike move with great force... Most important of all, the elements of symbolic theme which appear throughout the story are all employed with brilliance and economy to pull together various scattered events into a dense moment in the history of a few people, of Nebraska, and of the Western World."--Yale Review.