Winding Stair
$47.37
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
6 December 2011
Summary
“Winding Stair is True Grit for grown-ups… A significant and highly entertaining contribution to the popular literature of the American West.”-The New York TimesFort Smith, Arkansas, in 1890, is a haven of justice presiding over thousands of square miles known as the Indian Nation, a land that harbors the most hardened criminals in the country. When a woman is found murdered, young attorney Eben Pay, newly arrived to the territory, is pulled into a posse that follows a trail of blood and dest…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451234797 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0451234790 |
| Author: | Douglas C. Jones |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 6 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 130mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
“Winding Stair is True Grit for grown-ups… Jones relies on none of the usual Western trappings; he eschews stereotypes… The historical research is seamless-the story never slows down to admit dull exposition. Winding Stair convinces, utterly, that this is how life must have been in that place at that time… a significant and highly entertaining contribution to the popular literature of the American West.” — The New York Times
“Stunning…excellent…superb…You’ll not forget it very soon.” — Chicago Sun-Times
“A classic Western novel in the finest sense of that often abused term… spare, tough and honest.” — Houston Post
“Jones is a meticulous craftsman whose dialects, dialogues, settings, and sayings seem so ‘right’ and natural that one has the satisfying feeling of having read a novel without one ‘false note.’” — San Francisco Sunday Examiner
About The Author
Douglas C. Jones
Douglas C. Joneswas a three-time winner of the Western Writers of America’s Golden Spur Award, as well as the recipient of their Owen Wister Award of Lifetime Achievement. A native of Arkansas, Jones died in 1998.
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