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- English
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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, Carsonānow a skilled and respected horse trainerāgrudgingly 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.Ā .Ā .Ā . I instantly fell under its spell." ā The Christian Science Monitor
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, Carsonānow a skilled and respected horse trainerāgrudgingly 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.Ā .Ā .Ā . I instantly fell under its spell." ā The Christian Science Monitor
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Prologue
- BEHIND LOSTMANāS 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