Warlock
$27.25
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
12 January 2027
Summary
The taste and smell of Warlock was not merely that of its dust, but the taste of apprehension, the smell of fear and anger like a dangerous animal snarling and stinking in its cage …
In the dust-soaked, lawless town of Warlock, chaos reigns. After a band of local cowboys led by the cut-throat Abe McQuown chases the deputy sheriff out of town, the local citizens decide to take action. Enter famed Texan gunslinger Clay Blaisedell, hired to restore the peace and see off the outl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241823071 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241823072 |
| Author: | Oakley Hall |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 12 January 2027 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
One of our best American novels – Thomas Pynchon
[Warlock] blazed a trail for much of the best modern fiction of the American west * Guardian *
[A] brilliant novel of the violent West * San Francisco Chronicle *
Warlock is a story of the birth pangs of law and order, and the final arbitration of the six-shooter … hard to give a higher tribute to a book on the early West * New York Herald Tribune *
A vast mural of a novel * Los Angeles Times *
Like Henry James and Mark Twain, Oakley Hall is a master craftsman of the story. [His] dialogue is perfectly pitched, and intrigue will keep you turning the pages – Amy Tan
Oakley Hall
Oakley Hall was born in 1920 in San Diego and grew up there and in Honolulu. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, Hall joined the Marine Corps and was stationed in the Pacific during the Second World War. Following the war, he continued his studies in France, Switzerland and England, returning to the US to receive an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Hall published his first book, Murder City, in 1949, and went on to write more than twenty works of fiction and non-fiction. Best known for his novels set in the Old West, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 with his revelatory novel Warlock.
Hall was director of the writing programme at the University of California, Irvine, for twenty years and among his many honours are lifetime achievement awards from the PEN Center USA and the Cowboy Hall of Fame. He passed away in 2008.
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