Whiskey When We're Dry [electronic resource]
Larison, John2019
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'A powerful, impressive novel with a visceral sense of time and place' - Times In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbours, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains. Her goal? To find her gun-slinging fugitive brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious governor, whose militia is also hunting Noah - dead or alive. Wrestling with her brother's outlaw identity, and haunted by questions of her own, Jess must out-manoeuvre whose who underestimate her, ultimately rising to become a hero in her own right. Told in Jess's wholly original and unforgettable voice, the story brims with page-turning Western action, but its approach is modern and nuanced, touching on powerful issues from gender and sexuality to family and identity. In the sweeping storytelling tradition of Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, Whiskey When We're Dry transcends the straight-and-narrow Western to land among the classics. 'True Grit meets Blood Meridian meets Mulan' - Stuart Neville 'Whiskey When We're Dry transcends many of the genre's limitations' - Sunday Times 'The book is clearly a child of True Grit... but Whiskey When We're Dry plays it straight and Larison makes the reader believe in the unlikely premise through the remarkable skill with which Jess' narrative voice is realised' - Telegraph
Main title:
Whiskey When We're Dry [electronic resource] / John Larison
Author:
Larison, John, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Oldcastle Books, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
John Larison spent much of his childhood in remote regions of Australia, the Caribbean, Canada, the South Pacific, Alaska, and the American West before graduating from high school in Ithaca, New York. He studied philosophy and literature at the University of Oregon, and became a renowned fly-fishing guide ahead of earning an MFA from Oregon State University, where he stayed to teach while writing Whiskey When We're Dry, a classic literary western. He lives with his family in rural Oregon.
ISBN:
9780857303196
Language:
English
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BRN:
2309634