{"product_id":"painted-horses-paperback","title":"Painted Horses - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMalcolm Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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. \u003ci\u003ePainted Horses\u003c\/i\u003e creates several worlds in a seamless and ambitious blend of history, romance, archaeology and nature. . . . Hard to forget.\" --Bob Minzesheimer, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e (4 out of 4 stars)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003ePainted Horses\u003c\/i\u003e, now in paperback, a dauntless woman travels into that untamed landscape in an adventure that will change her life. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist who's come 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 nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is what she expects. John H is a former mustanger with an intuitive genius for breaking horses. A veteran of the U.S. Army's last mounted cavalry campaign, he lives a fugitive life, driven by pursuit of one last wild thing. John H inspires Catherine to see beauty in the stark landscape, and her heart opens to more than just the vanished past. \u003ci\u003ePainted Horses\u003c\/i\u003e sings a love song to the horseman's vanishing way of life and reminds us that love and ambition, tradition and progress, often make strange bedfellows. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Extraordinary . . . Surprising and satisfying . . . Brooks has fashioned compelling and sympathetic protagonists. . . . John H--orphan, rail rider, cowboy, World War II veteran, Paris artist, canyon hermit--in particular, has a backstory that is both intimate and sweeping in a way that may remind readers of Michael Ondaatje's \u003ci\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . \u003ci\u003ePainted Horses\u003c\/i\u003e is, after all, one of those big, old-fashioned novels where the mundane and the unlikely coexist.\"--Kent Black, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Malcolm Brooks' novel has the hard thrill of the West, when it was still a new world, the tenderness of first love and the pain of knowledge. This book is a gripping, compulsively readable page-turner.\"--Amy Bloom, author of \u003ci\u003eAway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalcolm Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e was raised in the rural foothills of the California Sierras, where Gold Rush and Native American artifacts still abound. A carpenter by trade, he has lived in Montana for most of two decades. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGray's Sporting Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSports Afield\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMontana Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. \u003ci\u003ePainted Horses\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757476348192,"sku":"9780802123817","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/16ccd671861c252dfd506d04019b9733.webp?v=1780103988","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/painted-horses-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}