Painted Horses - Softcover

Brooks, Malcolm

 
9780802123817: Painted Horses
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802123813 ISBN 13: 9780802123817
Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Engrossing . . . The best novels are not just written but builtscene by scene, character by characteruntil a world emerges for readers to fall into.Painted Horses creates several worlds in a seamless and ambitious blend of history, romance, archaeology and nature. . . . Hard to forget. Bob Minzesheimer,USA Today (4 out of 4 stars)

In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. InPainted Horses, now in paperback, a dauntless woman travels into that untamed landscape in an adventure that will change her life. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist whos come to Montana with a huge task before hera canyon as deep as the devils own appetites. Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is what she expects. John H is a former mustanger with an intuitive genius for breaking horses. A veteran of the U.S. Armys last mounted cavalry campaign, he lives a fugitive life, driven by pursuit of one last wild thing. John H inspires Catherine to see beauty in the stark landscape, and her heart opens to more than just the vanished past.Painted Horses sings a love song to the horsemans vanishing way of life and reminds us that love and ambition, tradition and progress, often make strange bedfellows.

Extraordinary . . . Surprising and satisfying . . . Brooks has fashioned compelling and sympathetic protagonists. . . . John Horphan, rail rider, cowboy, World War II veteran, Paris artist, canyon hermitin particular, has a backstory that is both intimate and sweeping in a way that may remind readers of Michael Ondaatjes The English Patient. . . .Painted Horses is, after all, one of those big, old-fashioned novels where the mundane and the unlikely coexist.Kent Black,Boston Globe

Malcolm Brooks novel has the hard thrill of the West, when it was still a new world, the tenderness of first love and the pain of knowledge. This book is a gripping, compulsively readable page-turner.Amy Bloom, author ofAway

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Malcolm Brooks was raised in the rural foothills of the California Sierras, where Gold Rush and Native American artifacts still abound. A carpenter by trade, he has lived in Montana for most of two decades. His writing has appeared inGrays Sporting Journal, Outside, Sports Afield, and Montana Quarterly, among others.Painted Horses is his first novel.

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Verlag
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802123813
ISBN 13 
9780802123817
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
384
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