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LONESOME ANIMALS
A startling, powerful debut novel about the hunt for a vicious killer in 1930s Washington state.
In LONESOME ANIMALS, Arthur Strawl, a tormented sheriff, is called out of retirement to hunt a serial killer with a sense of the macabre who has been leaving elaborately carved bodies of Native Americans across three counties. As the pursuit ensues, Strawl's own dark and violent history weaves itself into the hunt, shedding light on the remains of his broken family: one wife taken by the river, one by his own hand; an adopted Native American son who fancies himself a Catholic prophet; and a daughter, whose temerity and stoicism contrast against the romantic notions of how the west was won.
This is a western novel reinvented; a detective story, inverted for the west. It contemplates the nature of story and heroism in the face of a collapsing ethos not only of Native American culture, but also of the first wave of white men who, through the battle against the geography and its indigenous people, guaranteed their own destruction. It is also about one man's urgent, elegiac search for justice amidst the craven acts committed on the edges of civilization.
This is also Bruce's own story, drawing on his history Bruce grew up at the foot of the Okanogan Mountains in Washington State. His great-grandfather was an Indian scout and among the first settlers of the Grand Coulee. His grandmother ran a one-room schoolhouse and the family ranch until she retired in the mid-Sixties and his maternal grandparents were among the immigrants who traveled west for the promise of New Deal work on the Grand Coulee Dam. Bruce's father worked the last twenty years before his retirement operating a crane on the Dam.
In the vein of True Grit and Blood Meridian, Lonesome Animals is a western novel reinvented.
BRUCE HOLBERT is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop.
This is a western novel reinvented; a detective story, inverted for the west. It contemplates the nature of story and heroism in the face of a collapsing ethos not only of Native American culture, but also of the first wave of white men who, through the battle against the geography and its indigenous people, guaranteed their own destruction. It is also about one man's urgent, elegiac search for justice amidst the craven acts committed on the edges of civilization.
This is also Bruce's own story, drawing on his history Bruce grew up at the foot of the Okanogan Mountains in Washington State. His great-grandfather was an Indian scout and among the first settlers of the Grand Coulee. His grandmother ran a one-room schoolhouse and the family ranch until she retired in the mid-Sixties and his maternal grandparents were among the immigrants who traveled west for the promise of New Deal work on the Grand Coulee Dam. Bruce's father worked the last twenty years before his retirement operating a crane on the Dam.
In the vein of True Grit and Blood Meridian, Lonesome Animals is a western novel reinvented.
BRUCE HOLBERT is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop.
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Published 2012-05-01 by Counterpoint |
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Published 2012-05-01 by Counterpoint |