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* Read * Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks È eBook or Kindle ePUB. Painted Horses "A marvelous sprawling literary modern-day Western love story" according to B. Case. "Painted Horses," by Malcolm Brooks, is a stunning novel brimming with confident literary prose. It is hard to believe that this big bold masterful modern-day Western is the work of a debut novelist. It begins with an arresting sentence fragment: "London, even the smell of it." And. "Overblown" according to Amazon Customer. So self-consciously "literary" and with such poor character development that its grandios
| Title | : | Painted Horses |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (933 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802123813 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
John H inspires Catherine to see beauty in the stark landscape, and her heart opens to more than just the vanished past. Hard to forget.” Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today (4 out of 4 stars)In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. John H is a former mustanger with an intuitive genius for breaking horses. A veteran of the U.S. John Horphan, rail rider, cowboy, World War II veteran, Paris artist, canyon hermitin particular, has a backstory that is both intimate and sweeping in a way that may remind readers of Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient. This book is a gripping, compulsively readable page-turner.”Amy Bloom, author of Away. Painted Horses creates several worlds in a seamless and ambitious blend of history, romance, archaeology and nature. Painted Horses is, after all, one of those big, old-fashioned novels where the mundane and the unlikely coexist.”Kent Black, Boston GlobeMalcolm Brooks’ novel has the hard thrill of the West, when it was still a new world, th
"A marvelous sprawling literary modern-day Western love story" according to B. Case. "Painted Horses," by Malcolm Brooks, is a stunning novel brimming with confident literary prose. It is hard to believe that this big bold masterful modern-day Western is the work of a debut novelist. It begins with an arresting sentence fragment: "London, even the smell of it." And. "Overblown" according to Amazon Customer. So self-consciously "literary" and with such poor character development that its grandiose pretensions destroy what could have been an interesting, if much smaller story. Why write if there's so little to say? Pages and pages of filler. The story was wonderful! The description and structure is excellent Carolyn Clark I live in Billings, Montana so the history, geography, topography, flora and fauna are completely familiar. The story was wonderful! The description and structure is excellent. This book is on my personal top 10 list!
Brooks's prose is stylistically bold, announcing his artistic aspirations from the opening sentence. His Montana is vivid, wild, and broad, and it’s obvious that Brooks lives where he writes, and loves where he lives. Ultimately, Brooks accomplishes no small feat in this remarkable debut: a tale of literary ambition that lives comfortably inside its genre roots, but not by its conventions.--Jon Foro. When the inexperienced Catherine Lemay is appointed to survey the canyon for cultural evidence that could thwart the dam-builders, she assumes one corner of a Faustian triangle with a scheming hydroelectric shill and the mysterious John H., a rugged, reticent horse whisperer who opens the secrets of the country to the young archaeologist. Tangled relationships, difficult decisions, and hard compromises ensue. His characters are carefully drawn, yet their intentions remain ambiguous enough to b
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