Backlands: A Novel of the American West Hardback - 2014

Details

• Title Backlands: A Novel of the American West
• Author McGarrity, Michael
• Binding Hardback
• Edition 1ST
• Pages 544
• Language EN
• Publisher Dutton Adult, New York
• Date 2014-05-15
• ISBN 9780525953241

Praise for Michael McGarrity and Hard Country
 
“Any readers interested in the Western genre will be delighted by McGarrity’s take on harsh frontier life, and loyal fans of detective Kevin Kerney will be excited to see this prequel.”
 — Library Journal
 
“A well-rendered neoclassic tale of the Old West, worthy of a place alongside Lonesome Dove and Sea of Grass.”
— Kirkus Reviews

“Hard Country is the evocation of real people in a real land. McGarrity is an accomplished storyteller, and he writes with clarity, perception, and authenticity. Those who read this novel will find it engaging, and they will come away with a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Old West and of the part it played in forging the American imagination.”
— N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winning author of House Made of Dawn, The Way to Rainy Mountain, In the Bear’s House, and others.
 
“As anyone familiar with his excellent crime novels knows, Michael McGarrity really gets—and loves—the Southwest: Its colors, its rhythms, its blessings, its cussedness. Here McGarrity moves back in time to explore New Mexico's frontier past and in the process gives us something most unusual these days: An expansive, lyrical, period Western in the tradition of A.B. Guthrie, Jr. and Larry McMurtry. Savor this one—they don't make cowboy epics like this anymore.” 
—Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder
 
“Hard Country  is aptly titled, and the reader will take a spectacular journey with real people settling the West. There is inescapable action of the gun, the earth, the sky, and the heart. This is a western that women will love.”
 — Max Evans, author of The Rounders, The High Lo Country, Madam Millie, and others.
 
“Hard Country by Michael McGarrity is a ‘western’ in the sense that Lonesome Dove was a western. It transcends the genre, a great and true American novel of the West with immense power, beauty, and sweep. It is an unforgettable book. I loved it.”
—Douglas Preston, author of Cities of Gold and The Monster of Florence
 
“A compelling and richly imagined epic told by a master storyteller.  Michael McGarrity has his finger on the pulse of the Old West and a knack for drawing the reader in.  He also has a marvelous way of illuminating the human heart in characters tough and determined enough to stake a claim on a wild and hard country.  I didn’t want the story to end.  It is just that good.”
 —Margaret Coel, author of Buffalo Bill’s Dead Now