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HOLD THE DARK
In the stark Alaskan winter, timber wolf scholar Peter Curran has been summoned to investigate a wolf attack on a remote fishing village. Days later, First Lieutenant Matthew Ranick returns to Alaska from the Iraq war to discover his eight-year-old son murdered and his wife, Barbara, suspected in the boy’s death and on the run across the whited wilderness.
Unhinged, lunatic with the demons of grief and his remembrances of war, Ranick pursues his wife across a frozen wasteland, leaving a trail of his own atrocity. Called to protect Barbara from her husband’s wrath, Curran will slam into Ranick and into his own worst version of himself.
With a lyrical intensity and mythical reach reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, Hold the Dark expertly uncovers the poisoned psyches of three individuals bound by madness and fate in an unforgiving Alaskan landscape, a landscape that feels ancient, classically American of the farthest West, and very much of our time.
Few novelists possess William Giraldi’s power and precision of language, and in Hold the Dark those qualities are used to great effect, with an unflinching, poetic emphasis on the essence of violence, the enigma of evil, the wickedness of nature, and how war can contort a man into something monstrous. What beasts are we in our darkest hours, our dark nights of the soul? What carnage are we capable of? And what nightmares do the darkness hold, in places so brutal and mythic that they possess a power that both incorporates—and is larger than - the more well-known nightmares of our time? Hold the Dark - the first chapter of which was just published in Ploughshares to great excitement - is epic, unforgettable storytelling by one of our most dauntless and versatile writers.
William Giraldi is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Busy Monsters (W.W. Norton). He teaches at Boston University, is the Senior Fiction Editor for the journal AGNI, and is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review. He has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award in the category of Essays and Criticism, and has received a Pushcart Prize.
With a lyrical intensity and mythical reach reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, Hold the Dark expertly uncovers the poisoned psyches of three individuals bound by madness and fate in an unforgiving Alaskan landscape, a landscape that feels ancient, classically American of the farthest West, and very much of our time.
Few novelists possess William Giraldi’s power and precision of language, and in Hold the Dark those qualities are used to great effect, with an unflinching, poetic emphasis on the essence of violence, the enigma of evil, the wickedness of nature, and how war can contort a man into something monstrous. What beasts are we in our darkest hours, our dark nights of the soul? What carnage are we capable of? And what nightmares do the darkness hold, in places so brutal and mythic that they possess a power that both incorporates—and is larger than - the more well-known nightmares of our time? Hold the Dark - the first chapter of which was just published in Ploughshares to great excitement - is epic, unforgettable storytelling by one of our most dauntless and versatile writers.
William Giraldi is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Busy Monsters (W.W. Norton). He teaches at Boston University, is the Senior Fiction Editor for the journal AGNI, and is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review. He has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award in the category of Essays and Criticism, and has received a Pushcart Prize.
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Published 2014-09-01 by Norton / Liveright |