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Wounded is a briskly written novel by an author of ready intelligence and considerable wit who is not shy about taking on complicated issues. I only wish he'd given the whole thing a hundred more pages. -Jane Smiley
Graywolf Press
September 2005
Featuring: John Hunt
242 pages
ISBN: 1555974279
Hardcover
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Contemporary
The horse isn’t supposed to make decisions. That’s the
first thing. The second thing is that the rider is supposed
to make decisions. If the horse gets ahead of you, you
might get left behind. Training horses is dangerous—a head-to-head confrontation
with 1,000 pounds of muscle and little sense takes courage,
but more importantly patience and smarts. It is these same
qualities that allow John and his uncle Gus to live in the
beautiful high desert of Wyoming. A black horse trainer is
a curiosity, at the very least, but a familiar curiosity in
these parts. It is the brutal murder of a young gay man,
however, that pushes this small community to the teetering
edge of fear and tolerance. As the first blizzard of the season gains momentum, John is
forced to reckon not only with the daily burden of unruly
horses, a three-legged coyote pup, an escape-artist mule,
and too many people, but also a father-son war over
homosexuality, random hate-crimes, and—perhaps most
frightening of all—a chance for love. Highly praised for his storytelling and ability to address
the toughest issues of our time with humor, grace, and
originality, Everett offers a brilliant novel that explores
the alarming consequences of hatred in a divided America.
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