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Atria Books
January 2014
On Sale: January 7, 2014
Featuring: Bryce Andrews
171 pages
ISBN: 1476760268
EAN: 9781476760261
Kindle: B00BSBR2Q0
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
βMine might have been a simple, pretty story, if not for the wolves. In late July, they emerged from the foothills . . .β In this gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Bryce Andrews describes life on the remote, windswept Sun Ranch in southwest Montana. The Sunβs twenty thousand acres of rangeland occupy a still-wild corner of southwest Montanaβa high valley surrounded by mountain ranges and steep creeks with portentous names like Grizzly, Dead Man, and Bad Luck. Just over the border from Yellowstone National Park, the Sun holds giant herds of cattle and elk amid many predatorsβ bears, mountain lions, and wolves. In lyrical, haunting language, Andrews recounts marathon days and nights of building fences, riding, roping, and otherwise learning the hard business of caring for cattle, an initiation that changes him from an idealistic city kid into a skilled ranch hand. But when wolves suddenly begin killing the ranchβs cattle, Andrews has to shoulder a rifle, chase the pack, and do what heβd hoped he would never have to do. Badluck Way is about transformation and complications, about living with dirty hands every day. It is about the hard choices that wake us at night and take a lifetime to reconcile. Above all, Badluck Way celebrates the breathtaking beauty of wilderness and the satisfaction of hard work on some of the harshest, most beautiful land in the world. Called βan important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly wild animalsβ (Tom Groneberg, author of The Secret Life of Cowboys), Badluck Way is the memorable story of one young manβs rebirth in the crucible of the Westβs timeless landscape, a place at the center of the heartβs geography, savage and gorgeous in equal measure.
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