Ring of Fire

Ring of Fire is a fascinating and complex story. It's a great read, but probably more importantly, it resonates. I've found myself mulling over the characters, their actions, their fates, long after finishing the novel.
--Clark Brown, author of the novel The Disciple and the short story collection Down in the Valley

George Keithley (is) precise and evocative; and I like the fact that he knows the American experience...a western writer who doesn't write Westerns.
--Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Angle of Repose

Keithley's talent is remarkable...
--Joyce Carol Oates, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award author

Not only is George Keithley one of North America's most soulful writers, he is exquisitely imaginative.
--Al Young, California Poet Laureate and author of the best-selling novel Sitting Pretty

So stunning...So rare in this day of atrophied emotion and numbed feeling.
--The Washington Post

Keithley explores many themes: the transitoriness of life, the predatory nature of man and animal, the all--encompassing finality of death, and the ability, distinctly human, of transcendence.
--Small Press Review