Teaching Narcissus to Swim

Teaching Narcissus to Swim will surprise you with its clear, innocent voice and its artistic beauty. There's nothing Greek about this book except the title reference. On the contrary, it is quintessentially American. Half Indian, half cowboy, protagonist Buck McKuen is a naïve runaway boy the morning he arrives in rough-and-tumble Ruidoso, New Mexico. He has witnessed his father's untimely death, clashed with his brother and left his family's ranch in the Osage Hills of Oklahoma to make his...