Heart of the Country (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
This epic Gothic Western about a half-Indian outcast who becomes a famous buffalo hunter is "a big sprawling novel of the West as it really was" (The Denver Post).
Perhaps Joe Cobden was always destined to be an outcast. His Indian mother died in...
Perhaps Joe Cobden was always destined to be an outcast. His Indian mother died in...
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This epic Gothic Western about a half-Indian outcast who becomes a famous buffalo hunter is "a big sprawling novel of the West as it really was" (The Denver Post).
Perhaps Joe Cobden was always destined to be an outcast. His Indian mother died in childbirth, alone on a stagecoach road under a pitch-black prairie sky. His white father abandoned him in the name of his own ambition. The wife of the doctor who adopted him despised him for his mixed race. His classmates teased him for his curved spine. Joe leaves nothing but pain behind as he lights out for the Kansas frontier.
It is the 1870s and Joe makes a name for himself as a famed buffalo hunter, tracking a phantom white buffalo from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. But his glory days as "Joe Buffalo" die as quickly as the slaughtered herds, and he finds himself forced to settle in Valley Forge, where the townsfolk each hide their own twisted secrets.
"[A] gutsy, raunchy, rough, blunt, down-to-earth (or mud) novel in which little is sacred," Heart of the Country paints a broad panorama of a demythologized American West, populated with unforgettable-and often unforgivable-characters, brought to life with stunning imagery and bold, baroque prose (Los Angeles Times).
Perhaps Joe Cobden was always destined to be an outcast. His Indian mother died in childbirth, alone on a stagecoach road under a pitch-black prairie sky. His white father abandoned him in the name of his own ambition. The wife of the doctor who adopted him despised him for his mixed race. His classmates teased him for his curved spine. Joe leaves nothing but pain behind as he lights out for the Kansas frontier.
It is the 1870s and Joe makes a name for himself as a famed buffalo hunter, tracking a phantom white buffalo from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. But his glory days as "Joe Buffalo" die as quickly as the slaughtered herds, and he finds himself forced to settle in Valley Forge, where the townsfolk each hide their own twisted secrets.
"[A] gutsy, raunchy, rough, blunt, down-to-earth (or mud) novel in which little is sacred," Heart of the Country paints a broad panorama of a demythologized American West, populated with unforgettable-and often unforgivable-characters, brought to life with stunning imagery and bold, baroque prose (Los Angeles Times).
Autoren-Porträt von Greg Matthews
Greg Matthews is the author of eleven books, including The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, heralded by the Christian Science Monitor as "the true sequel to Twain's masterpiece," and two acclaimed sagas of the Old West, Heart of the Country and Power in the Blood. He has published three books-Callisto, The Dolphin People, and The Secret Book of Sacred Things-under the nom de plume Torsten Krol. The author describes himself as "a guy in a room, writing, writing."
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Greg Matthews
- 2016, 703 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1504034880
- ISBN-13: 9781504034883
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2016
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“A remarkable historical novel . . . Matthews has taken huge risks of subject matter and style and emerged triumphant. . . . A stunning, mesmerizing performance.” —Newsweek“Harsh . . . Vivid . . . Succeeds in a way in which few novels of the American West have done.” —The Christian Science Monitor
“Think of the Marquis de Sade writing a history of the West. . . . Fascinating . . . A page-turner.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Allows us to see the American frontier experience in a fresh, demystified way . . . Rich . . . Compelling.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A triumphant and captivating novel.” —The Kansas City Star
“A bold and blasphemous story that questions our beliefs and ideas about the Old West.” —Los Angeles Times
“The real dangers of the Wild West are felt here. . . . Heart-stopping.” —New York Newsday
“Pure realism so ingeniously crafted that a reader can believe that the people are real and that it all happened as Matthews wrote it.” —Chicago Tribune Bookworld
“From the first pages, the intensity of Matthews’ coarse-grained narrative involved me with those earthy, often unpleasant characters. He has a way of creating suspense without seeming to do so.” —Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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