Word: basalt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longer able to work with big stones, he turned to little ones that were lying around his studio in Shikoku, Japan (he has another in New York City). Many of them were lumps of gray Aji granite on which his assistants had been practicing their pointing technique; others were basalt pebbles, dusty brown outside, dense black within. Some of the granite stones he grouped in twos and threes, nesting them into one another so that they seem to have flowed together. With the basalt, he split some stones by a single cut; in others, he opened up the merest chip...
Despite such intrigues and atmospheres, Yellowfish is no ordinary thriller with grand scenery and exotic characters. Novelist Keeble, 35, a teacher and rancher from Medical Lake, Wash., is out to evoke an entire region. His eastern Washington, "a country of high desert, sage brush, pine, rivers and basalt extrusion," is a palimpsest of Indian legend, the ragged footprints of pioneers and the restless ghosts of Joaquin Miller, Frank Norris and Jack London...