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Doubleday
April 2015
On Sale: April 14, 2015
354 pages
ISBN: 0385539487
EAN: 9780385539487
Kindle: B00N6PCZUE
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Fiction | Historical | Western
Tracing a group of ruthless outlaws from its genesis
during the American Civil War all the way to a final bloody
stand in the Oklahoma territories, The Winter
Family is a hyperkinetic Western noir that reads
like a full-on assault to the senses. Spanning the better part of three decades, The
Winter Family traverses America's harsh, untamed
terrain, both serving and opposing the fierce advance of
civilization. Among its twisted specimens, the Winter Family
includes the psychopathic killer Quentin Ross, the mean and
moronic Empire brothers, the impassive ex-slave Fred
Johnson, and the dangerous child prodigy Lukas Shakespeare
But at the malevolent center of this ultraviolent storm is
their cold, hardened leader, Augustus Winter—a man with an
almost pathological resistance to the rules of society and a
preternatural gift for butchery. From their service as political thugs in a brutal Chicago
election to their work as bounty hunters in the deserts of
Arizona, there's a hypnotic logic to Winter's grim
borderland morality that plays out, time and again, in
ruthless carnage. With its haunting, hard-edged style, The Winter
Family is a feverishly paced meditation on human
nature and the dark contradictions of progress.
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