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About The Book
A stranger appears at an isolated cabin in frontier America. He has no friends, and no apparent purpose. But as the sun disappears and the desert darkens, a series of strange and savage events start to unfold.
Turning the western genre on its head, Ryan Ireland’s deeply affecting tale transports readers into a visceral and terrifying world of shape-shifters, shadows and the darkest parts of Western American lore.
Product Details
- Publisher: Point Blank (February 4, 2016)
- Length: 288 pages
- ISBN13: 9781780745992
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Raves and Reviews
‘An unflinching, soul-searching story about the dangers of the American West... Ireland’s voice stands apart and he will surely be marked as a courageous and essential writer.’
– Ann Weisgarber, author of the award-winning The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
‘Expertly plotted, artfully executed, compulsively readable… a writer who has something to say.’
– Los Angeles Review of Books
‘Ireland blends fanciful history with magic realism to create a critical allegory of the American expansionist experience ... Intellectual in theme, literary in execution: think Gabriel García Márquez reimagining Little Big Man.’
– Kirkus Reviews
'Mythical, dangerous and deeply unsettling.'
– Shortlist
'Ireland’s intensely and brutally violent debut novel sweeps through period and place while exploring the role memory plays in the establishment of creation myths ... a barbaric vision of the West.’
– Library Journal
‘With trenchant dialogue, affecting characters, and a page-turner of a story, Ryan Ireland has given readers a mysterious and exciting Western that may become a classic.’
– Ron Hansen, author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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