Binding: Paperback
Description: NEW YORK Times Bestseller The bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife returns with a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West (Entertainment Weekly). Named ONE OF THE BEST Books OF THE YEAR BY Time The Washington Post Entertainment Weekly Esquire Real Simple Good Housekeeping Town & Country The New York Public Library Kirkus Reviews Library Journal Book Page In the lawless drought - ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life her husband who has gone in search of water for the parched household and her elder sons who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home. Meanwhile Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous expedition across the West. The way in which Lurie's death - defying trek at last intersects with Nora's plight is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novel. Mythical lyrical and sweeping in scope Inland is grounded in true but little - known history. It showcases all of T a Obreht's talents as a writer as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West making them entirely and unforgettably her own. Praise for Inland As it should be the landscape of the West itself is a character thrillingly rendered throughout . Here Obreht's simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the West's beauty and sudden menace. Remarkable in a novel with such a sprawling cast Obreht also has a poetic touch for writing intricate and precise character descriptions. The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice) Beautifully wrought. Vanity Fair Obreht is the kind of writer who can forever change the way you think about a thing just through her powers of description . Inland is an ambitious and beautiful work about many things: immigration the afterlife responsibility guilt marriage parenthood revenge all the roads and waterways that led to America. Miraculously it's also a page - turner and a mystery as well as a love letter to a camel and like a camel improbable and splendid something to happily puzzle over at first and take your breath away at the end. Elizabeth Mc Cracken O: The Oprah Magazine
Title: Inland
Author(s): Obreht Tea
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Barcode: 9780812982756
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/26/2020