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What do readers say about Outer Dark?
sparse and stark minimalist and brutal darkly evocative novel surprising, penetrating, beautiful proseOuter Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natura... More details on Outer Dark
She shook him awake from dark to dark, delivered out of the clamorous rabble under a black sun and into a night more dolorous, sitting upright and cursing beneath his breath in the bed he shared with ...
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What do readers say about Butcher's Crossing?
a stupendous novel mostly realistic plot great american western a survival guideIn his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.
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The coach from Ellsworth to Butcher’s Crossing was a dougherty that had been converted to carry passengers and small freight. Four mules pulled the cart over the ridged, uneven road that descended sli...
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What do readers say about The Passenger?
a stand-alone novel a great novel long paragraphs in spanish the kennedy assassinationNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy be... More details on The Passenger
This then would be Chicago in the winter of the last year of her life. In a week’s time she would return to Stella Maris and from there wander away into the bleak Wisconsin woods. The Thalidomide Kid ...
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What do readers say about Whiskey When We're Dry?
post civil war a memorable narrative voice wild-west reminiscent of the best coming of age westernsNamed a Best Book by Entertainment Weekly, O Magazine, Goodreads, Southern Living, Outside Magazine, Oprah.com, HelloGiggles, Parade, Fodor's Travel, Sioux City Journal, Read it Forward, Medium.com, and NPR's All Things Considered.
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Our kin homesteaded where desert met lake. The hills in the near distance wore blankets of pine. Patterns of aspen marked the water. Beyond them the mountains stood blue on clear days and devoured the...
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What do readers say about The Orchard Keeper?
beautiful prose style beautiful written prose the plot certainly meanders john wesley rattnerAn American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists. Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young bo... More details on The Orchard Keeper
For some time now the road had been deserted, white and scorching yet, though the sun was already reddening the western sky. He walked along slowly in the dust, stopping from time to time and hobbling...
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What do readers say about The Cold Dish?
modern day cowboy mystery dry and drawn-out whodunit type of mystery his descriptive proseIntroducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author, the first in the Longmire mystery series
Craig Johnson's new novel, LAND OF WOLVES, is forthcoming from Viking
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She might have knocked, but I didn’t hear it because I was watching the geese. I watch the geese a lot in the fall, when the days get shorter and the ice traces the rocky edges of Clear Creek. The she...
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What do readers say about Shane?
tension, morality, interesting characters mysterious and dangerous mythic and moving more depth and nuancesI had lain in my bed thinking of our visitor out in the bunk in the barn. It scarce seemed possible that he was the same man I had first seen, stern and chilling in his dark solitude, riding up our road. Something in father, something not of words or... More details on Shane
He drew rein not twenty feet from me. His glance hit me, dismissed me, flicked over our place. This was not much, if you were thinking in terms of size and scope. But what there was was good. You coul...
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What do readers say about Riders of the Purple Sage?
full of purple prose lots of mormon bashing a classic pulp western very good westernNo book has a better claim to have invented the myth of the American West.
It is 1871 in Cottonwoods, Utah.
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Jane Withersteen gazed down the wide purple slope with dreamy andtroubled eyes. A rider had just left her and it was his messagethat held her thoughtful and almost sad, awaiting the churchmenwho were ...
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What do readers say about Warlock?
an existential western fantastic existential western I couldn't love it an epic storyOakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, ... More details on Warlock
DEPUTY CANNING had been Warlock’s hope. During his regime we had come to think, in man’s eternal optimism, that progress was being made toward at least some mild form of Law & Order in Warlock. Certai...
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What do readers say about Death Comes for the Archbishop?
an episodic tale modernist epic novel a collection of vignettes dreamlike poetic proseWilla Cather's best known novel is an epic-almost mythic-story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vas... More details on Death Comes for the Archbishop
One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central New Mexico. He had lost his way, and was trying to...
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