
- 416 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This story of a horse trainer and a rich man's wife is "a gorgeously written, exacting exploration of duty and retribution set in dusty rural South Dakota" ( Publishers Weekly ). When fourteen-year-old Carson Fielding bought his first horse from Magnus Yarborough, it became clear the teenager was a better judge of horses than the rich landowner was of humans. Years later, Carson—now a skilled and respected horse trainer—grudgingly agrees to train Magnus's horses and teach his wife to ride. But as Carson becomes disaffected with the power-hungry Magnus, he also grows more and more attracted to the rancher's wife, and their relationship sets off a violent chain of events that unsettles their quiet town in South Dakota. Thrown into the drama are Earl Walks Alone, a Lakota trying to study his way out of the reservation and into college, and Willi, a German exchange student confronting his family's troubled history. Described by Howard Frank Mosher as "the best western-based fiction I've read since Lonesome Dove and Plainsong, " this "compelling" story of love and hatred by the author of Twisted Tree offers "fine characterizations, crisp dialogue and fully realized sense of place" ( The Denver Post ). "Kent Meyers's new novel is the kind of book that demands and rewards fierce loyalty.... I instantly fell under its spell." — The Christian Science Monitor
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Prologue
- BEHIND LOSTMAN’S LAKE
- The Careful Indian
- A Fall
- Trespassing
- The Rememberer
- The Old House
- An Agreement
- Equilibriums
- Horses and Men
- Hers
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF BROKE
- Angle of Spin
- ROBBING AND STEALING
- Mining Blame
- The Lights of Koblenz
- The Silent Indian
- Substitutes for Speech
- Well of Life
- Stacking Hay
- Conversion
- Manifold
- How to Seduce White Girls
- Goat Man Forms
- GOAT MAN
- Sightings
- Trying to Go Blind
- Beadwork
- Gradations of Intimacy
- Ruination
- Dogs and Spirits
- Nine Hundred an Acre
- A Thing Unsaid
- A Thing Decided
- Another Option
- Abraham and Isaac
- The Badlands
- The Work of Wolves
- Fire and Ice
- The Invisible Cop
- Another Fire
- Wild, Freed
- A Moment of What Remains
- Some Set of Vectors
- Wind
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author