A few passages coil toward melodrama, and one inelegant line after a rape seems jarringly modern, but the spell holds fast. Expect Miller's readership to mushroom like one of Circe's spells. Miller makes Homer pertinent to women facing 21st-century monsters. Pub Date: April 10, 2018. ISBN: 978--316-55634-7.
Painted Horses
Painted Horses. by Malcolm Brooks. Publication Date: June 9, 2015. Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction. Paperback: 384 pages. Publisher: Grove Press. ISBN-10: 0802123813. ISBN-13: 9780802123817. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her --- a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites.".
Painted Horses
Painted Horses. Written by Malcolm Brooks Review by Jo Ann Butler. In the mid-1950s, Catherine Lemay goes to London to study music. Instead, she falls in love with archeology. Battered by German bombs only a decade before, the city's Roman ruins enchant Catherine, and she helps salvage a unique temple which blocks post-war rebuilding.
'Painted Horses,' by Malcolm Brooks: review
And lest we forget the painted horses of the book's title, Malcolm Brooks grew up in rural Northern California. He also spent a chunk of time on his grandparents' farm in New Jersey. In his ...
Book Review: Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks
August 19, 2014. Malcolm Brooks's debut Painted Horses walks the steady line of genre archetypes without veering into stereotype. It's an old-fashioned novel, sweeping in scope and probing of character, without leaning on showy language and post-modern literary gimmicks. Sure, you have a somewhat rote plot and a slightly under-written ...
'Painted Horses' by Malcolm Brooks
Book review 'Painted Horses' by Malcolm Brooks. By Kent Black Globe Correspondent, August 16, 2014, 6:00 p.m. istockphoto/iStock. There is an exchange between two characters in Malcolm Brooks ...
Painted Horses
Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her --- a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove that nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. And then there's John H, a former mustanger and veteran of the U.S. Army's last mounted cavalry campaign, living a ...
Fiction review: 'Painted Horses,' by Malcolm Brooks
A hefty, sprawling book that straddles World War II and postwar England but spends most of its time in a Montana canyon, Painted Horses reads like a cross between Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain ...
Painted Horses (Brooks)
Painted Horses sends a dauntless young woman on a heroic quest, sings a love song to the horseman's vanishing way of life, and reminds us that love and ambition, tradition and the future, often make strange bedfellows. It establishes Malcolm Brooks as an extraordinary new talent. ... Book Reviews (Starred review.) Brooks's debut captures ...
Book Summary and Reviews of Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks
This information about Painted Horses was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter.Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication.
Review: Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks
When I picked up Painted Horses and read the first line I cringed: "London, even the smell of it." But despite the fact that this story begins with a sentence fragment I read on. Catherine Lemay grows up as the only child of well-to-do parents who live in the outskirts of New York City.
'Painted Horses,' by Malcolm Brooks
By Molly Gloss. August 21, 2014 at 4:55 p.m. EDT. In Malcolm Brooks's first novel, it is 1956 or thereabouts. Elvis Presley is "this new singer," and "Blackboard Jungle" is playing at the movie ...
Praise for Painted Horses: National Bestseller One of Amazon's 100 Best Books of 2014 #1 Indie Next Great Read for August 2014 A Barnes & Noble Discover Selection Amazon Debut Spotlight for August 2014 Engrossing . . . The best novels are not just written but built scene by scene, character by character until a world emerges for readers to fall into.
Book Review: Painted Horses
This novel was a refreshing change of time and place for me. It was set mostly in the mid 1950's in Montana. The wild west was tipping toward a new era, where history and tradition would clash with progress.
Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks Reading Guide-Book Club Discussion
Editorial Review. An Amazon Best Book of the Month, ... Like The Son, Painted Horses positions itself at the moment the frontier era gives way to modernity: in mid-century Montana, a dam project threatens to flood a canyon historically inhabited by Native Americans, submerging thousands of years of Crow history under hundreds of feet of slack ...
Painted Horses. Hardcover - August 5, 2014. In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape, in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of love and ...
Painted Horses: A Novel Kindle Edition
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: It's tempting to dismiss Malcolm Brooks's debut as the latest in a series of American epics treading on Cormac McCarthy territory: The Son, Fourth of July Creek, and The Kept come to mind as recent novels dealing with the darker realities of frontiers, both geographical and personal. Like The Son, Painted Horses positions itself at the moment ...
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Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks, Paperback
Interviews. Barnes & Noble Review Interview with Malcolm Brooks It comes as little surprise to learn that Lonesome Dove is a seminal literary influence in Malcolm Brooks's life. Reading his debut novel, Painted Horses, you'll hear the voice of Larry McMurtry, as well as echoes of Jim Harrison, Wallace Stegner, and that old go-to, Cormac McCarthy. But make no mistake, Malcolm Brooks stands on ...
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A few passages coil toward melodrama, and one inelegant line after a rape seems jarringly modern, but the spell holds fast. Expect Miller's readership to mushroom like one of Circe's spells. Miller makes Homer pertinent to women facing 21st-century monsters. Pub Date: April 10, 2018. ISBN: 978--316-55634-7.
Painted Horses. by Malcolm Brooks. Publication Date: June 9, 2015. Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction. Paperback: 384 pages. Publisher: Grove Press. ISBN-10: 0802123813. ISBN-13: 9780802123817. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her --- a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites.".
Painted Horses. Written by Malcolm Brooks Review by Jo Ann Butler. In the mid-1950s, Catherine Lemay goes to London to study music. Instead, she falls in love with archeology. Battered by German bombs only a decade before, the city's Roman ruins enchant Catherine, and she helps salvage a unique temple which blocks post-war rebuilding.
And lest we forget the painted horses of the book's title, Malcolm Brooks grew up in rural Northern California. He also spent a chunk of time on his grandparents' farm in New Jersey. In his ...
August 19, 2014. Malcolm Brooks's debut Painted Horses walks the steady line of genre archetypes without veering into stereotype. It's an old-fashioned novel, sweeping in scope and probing of character, without leaning on showy language and post-modern literary gimmicks. Sure, you have a somewhat rote plot and a slightly under-written ...
Book review 'Painted Horses' by Malcolm Brooks. By Kent Black Globe Correspondent, August 16, 2014, 6:00 p.m. istockphoto/iStock. There is an exchange between two characters in Malcolm Brooks ...
Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her --- a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove that nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. And then there's John H, a former mustanger and veteran of the U.S. Army's last mounted cavalry campaign, living a ...
A hefty, sprawling book that straddles World War II and postwar England but spends most of its time in a Montana canyon, Painted Horses reads like a cross between Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain ...
Painted Horses sends a dauntless young woman on a heroic quest, sings a love song to the horseman's vanishing way of life, and reminds us that love and ambition, tradition and the future, often make strange bedfellows. It establishes Malcolm Brooks as an extraordinary new talent. ... Book Reviews (Starred review.) Brooks's debut captures ...
This information about Painted Horses was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter.Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication.
When I picked up Painted Horses and read the first line I cringed: "London, even the smell of it." But despite the fact that this story begins with a sentence fragment I read on. Catherine Lemay grows up as the only child of well-to-do parents who live in the outskirts of New York City.
By Molly Gloss. August 21, 2014 at 4:55 p.m. EDT. In Malcolm Brooks's first novel, it is 1956 or thereabouts. Elvis Presley is "this new singer," and "Blackboard Jungle" is playing at the movie ...
Praise for Painted Horses: National Bestseller One of Amazon's 100 Best Books of 2014 #1 Indie Next Great Read for August 2014 A Barnes & Noble Discover Selection Amazon Debut Spotlight for August 2014 Engrossing . . . The best novels are not just written but built scene by scene, character by character until a world emerges for readers to fall into.
This novel was a refreshing change of time and place for me. It was set mostly in the mid 1950's in Montana. The wild west was tipping toward a new era, where history and tradition would clash with progress.
Editorial Review. An Amazon Best Book of the Month, ... Like The Son, Painted Horses positions itself at the moment the frontier era gives way to modernity: in mid-century Montana, a dam project threatens to flood a canyon historically inhabited by Native Americans, submerging thousands of years of Crow history under hundreds of feet of slack ...
Painted Horses. Hardcover - August 5, 2014. In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape, in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of love and ...
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2014: It's tempting to dismiss Malcolm Brooks's debut as the latest in a series of American epics treading on Cormac McCarthy territory: The Son, Fourth of July Creek, and The Kept come to mind as recent novels dealing with the darker realities of frontiers, both geographical and personal. Like The Son, Painted Horses positions itself at the moment ...
Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Painted Horses at Amazon.com. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users.
Interviews. Barnes & Noble Review Interview with Malcolm Brooks It comes as little surprise to learn that Lonesome Dove is a seminal literary influence in Malcolm Brooks's life. Reading his debut novel, Painted Horses, you'll hear the voice of Larry McMurtry, as well as echoes of Jim Harrison, Wallace Stegner, and that old go-to, Cormac McCarthy. But make no mistake, Malcolm Brooks stands on ...