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Lonesome Animals
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ISBN10: 1619021560
ISBN13: 9781619021563
Publisher: Catapult
Published: May 14 2013
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781619021563
Publisher: Catapult
Published: May 14 2013
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In Lonesome Animals, Arthur Strawl, a tormented former lawman, 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.
In the vein of True Gritand Blood Meridian, Lonesome Animals 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. But it is also about one man's urgent, elegiac search for justice amidst the craven acts committed on the edges of civilization.
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