Moonlight Over Pearl: Ten Stories from Aspen

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The ten stories in Moonlight Over Pearl represent divergent expressions of Aspen, from the rich culture of an urbane mountain town to dramatic aspects of mountain living. Within these stories, nature exerts a powerful force, both vital and lethal, setting a unique stage for personal transformation.These ten stories span the artistic beauty of a performance at the Aspen Music Festival to a pioneering adventure across the spine of the Rockies. They arc from a seminar room at the Aspen Institute to a remote mountain ski hut in the heart of the Elk Range. They describe real people and real places, offering a portrayal of lives well lived, minds enriched by ideas, bodies attuned to the mountains, and of spirits elated by it all.Moonlight Over Pearl: Ten Stories from Aspen is a complement to the life force of Aspen, a well crafted, thoughtful book that captures Aspen's spirit, culture, history and natural beauty. This volume is the second collection of fictional short stories ever published about Aspen, and it fills an important niche in Aspen's bibliography.