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Rough Animals : An American Western Thriller by Rae DelBianco (2018, Hardcover)

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PublisherSkyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

ISBN-101628729732

ISBN-139781628729733

eBay Product ID (ePID)240406566

Product Key Features

Book TitleRough Animals : an American Western Thriller

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Small Town & Rural, Thrillers / General, Westerns

Publication Year2018

GenreFiction

AuthorRae Delbianco

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight14.3 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-061147

Reviews"In this high-octane, take-no-prisoners debut, Rae DelBianco portrays the mayhem and grit of the new West with the demon eye of Cormac McCarthy but a fierce heart very much her own. I dare you to draw a breath from beginning to end." --Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of A House Among the Trees and Three Junes "Rough Animals is the kind of novel that can teach you the mechanics of dissecting a bull with only an axe and a knife, or how to survive on a coyote's blood if you're waterless in the desert. It renders its portrait of brother-sister love and their pitiless world of the badlands of northern Utah with some of Denis Johnson's flamboyant lyricism, when it comes to longings for transcendence, and with more than a little of Cormac McCarthy's implacable vision of a world in which we survive by doing the thing most others could not bring themselves to do." --Jim Shepard, Story Prize winner and author of The World to Come and Like You'd Understand, Anyway, "In this high-octane, take-no-prisoners debut, Rae DelBianco portrays the mayhem and grit of the new West with the demon eye of Cormac McCarthy but a fierce heart very much her own. I dare you to draw a breath from beginning to end." --Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of A House Among the Trees and Three Junes "Rough Animals is the kind of novel that can teach you the mechanics of dissecting a bull with only an axe and a knife, or how to survive on a coyote's blood if you're waterless in the desert. It renders its portrait of brother-sister love and their pitiless world of the badlands of northern Utah with some of Denis Johnson's flamboyant lyricism, when it comes to longings for transcendence, and with more than a little of Cormac McCarthy's implacable vision of a world in which we survive by doing the thing most others could not bring themselves to do." --Jim Shepard, author of The World to Come and Like You'd Understand, Anyway, "Rough Animals is the kind of novel that can teach you the mechanics of dissecting a bull with only an axe and a knife, or how to survive on a coyote's blood if you're waterless in the desert. It renders its portrait of brother-sister love and their pitiless world of the badlands of northern Utah with some of Denis Johnson's flamboyant lyricism, when it comes to longings for transcendence, and with more than a little of Cormac McCarthy's implacable vision of a world in which we survive by doing the thing most others could not bring themselves to do." --Jim Shepard, Story Prize winner and author of The World to Come and Like You'd Understand, Anyway "In this high-octane, take-no-prisoners debut, Rae DelBianco portrays the mayhem and grit of the new West with the demon eye of Cormac McCarthy but a fierce heart very much her own. I dare you to draw a breath from beginning to end." --Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of A House Among the Trees and Three Junes "DelBianco's captivating debut, Rough Animals, stakes its claim to the modern Western, substituting assault weapons for six-shooters and cartel members for the old-fashioned gunslingers in a story told with a style of classic American grit."--Douglas Brunt, New York Times bestselling author, "Furious and electric . . . The novel succeeds as a viscerally evoked and sparely plotted fever dream, a bleakly realized odyssey through an American west populated by survivors and failed dreamers."-- Publishers Weekly , starred review "In this haunting new novel by Rae DelBianco, a child with a gun interrupts the lives of twins Wyatt and Lucy at their ranch in Utah, prompting Wyatt to set out on a harrowing journey across both interior and exterior landscapes--both of which prove equally complex to navigate.--Southern Living, "Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018" "A brilliant, incandescent debut that will remind everyone of a young Cormac McCarthy."--Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Son "Rough Animals is the kind of novel that can teach you the mechanics of dissecting a bull with only an axe and a knife, or how to survive on a coyote's blood if you're waterless in the desert. It renders its portrait of brother-sister love and their pitiless world of the badlands of northern Utah with some of Denis Johnson's flamboyant lyricism, when it comes to longings for transcendence, and with more than a little of Cormac McCarthy's implacable vision of a world in which we survive by doing the thing most others could not bring themselves to do." --Jim Shepard, Story Prize winner and author of The World to Come and Like You'd Understand, Anyway "A wild and alive debut, full of grit, gunfire, blood, and bad news. Rough Animals is as phantasmagoric as McCarthy and as pitiless as Jim Thompson. A rare treat." --Joshua Ferris, bestselling author of The Dinner Party and Then We Came to an End "DelBianco's captivating debut, Rough Animals, stakes its claim to the modern Western, substituting assault weapons for six-shooters and cartel members for the old-fashioned gunslingers in a story told with a style of classic American grit."--Douglas Brunt, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosts of Manhattan and The Means "In this high-octane, take-no-prisoners debut, Rae DelBianco portrays the mayhem and grit of the new West with the demon eye of Cormac McCarthy but a fierce heart very much her own. I dare you to draw a breath from beginning to end." --Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of A House Among the Trees and Three Junes, "Furious and electric . . . The novel succeeds as a viscerally evoked and sparely plotted fever dream, a bleakly realized odyssey through an American west populated by survivors and failed dreamers."-- Publishers Weekly , starred review "A brilliant, incandescent debut that will remind everyone of a young Cormac McCarthy."--Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Son Rough Animals is the kind of novel that can teach you the mechanics of dissecting a bull with only an axe and a knife, or how to survive on a coyote's blood if you're waterless in the desert. It renders its portrait of brother-sister love and their pitiless world of the badlands of northern Utah with some of Denis Johnson's flamboyant lyricism, when it comes to longings for transcendence, and with more than a little of Cormac McCarthy's implacable vision of a world in which we survive by doing the thing most others could not bring themselves to do." --Jim Shepard, Story Prize winner and author of The World to Come and Like You'd Understand, Anyway "A wild and alive debut, full of grit, gunfire, blood, and bad news. Rough Animals is as phantasmagoric as McCarthy and as pitiless as Jim Thompson. A rare treat." --Joshua Ferris, bestselling author of The Dinner Party and Then We Came to an End "DelBianco's captivating debut, Rough Animals, stakes its claim to the modern Western, substituting assault weapons for six-shooters and cartel members for the old-fashioned gunslingers in a story told with a style of classic American grit."--Douglas Brunt, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosts of Manhattan and The Means "In this high-octane, take-no-prisoners debut, Rae DelBianco portrays the mayhem and grit of the new West with the demon eye of Cormac McCarthy but a fierce heart very much her own. I dare you to draw a breath from beginning to end." --Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of A House Among the Trees and Three Junes, ""A brilliant, incandescent debut that will remind everyone of a young Cormac McCarthy."--Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Son Rough Animals is the kind of novel that can teach you the mechanics of dissecting a bull with only an axe and a knife, or how to survive on a coyote's blood if you're waterless in the desert. It renders its portrait of brother-sister love and their pitiless world of the badlands of northern Utah with some of Denis Johnson's flamboyant lyricism, when it comes to longings for transcendence, and with more than a little of Cormac McCarthy's implacable vision of a world in which we survive by doing the thing most others could not bring themselves to do." --Jim Shepard, Story Prize winner and author of The World to Come and Like You'd Understand, Anyway "A wild and alive debut, full of grit, gunfire, blood, and bad news. Rough Animals is as phantasmagoric as McCarthy and as pitiless as Jim Thompson. A rare treat." --Joshua Ferris, bestselling author of The Dinner Party and Then We Came to an End "DelBianco's captivating debut, Rough Animals, stakes its claim to the modern Western, substituting assault weapons for six-shooters and cartel members for the old-fashioned gunslingers in a story told with a style of classic American grit."--Douglas Brunt, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosts of Manhattan and The Means "In this high-octane, take-no-prisoners debut, Rae DelBianco portrays the mayhem and grit of the new West with the demon eye of Cormac McCarthy but a fierce heart very much her own. I dare you to draw a breath from beginning to end." --Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of A House Among the Trees and Three Junes, "Furious and electric . . . The novel succeeds as a viscerally evoked and sparely plotted fever dream, a bleakly realized odyssey through an American west populated by survivors and failed dreamers."-- Publishers Weekly , starred review ""This take-no-prisoners debut from DelBianco has been compared to Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Ron Rash, Donald Ray Pollock, and Jim Thompson, and rather than argue, we'll just throw in Gabriel Tallent. Against a backdrop of ferocious, visceral, almost psychedelically intense nature writing. . . Man, this 'redneck kid author' can write."-- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "In this haunting new novel by Rae DelBianco, a child with a gun interrupts the lives of twins Wyatt and Lucy at their ranch in Utah, prompting Wyatt to set out on a harrowing journey across both interior and exterior landscapes--both of which prove equally complex to navigate.--Southern Living, "Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018" "A brilliant, incandescent debut that will remind everyone of a young Cormac McCarthy."--Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Son "Rough Animals is the kind of novel that can teach you the mechanics of dissecting a bull with only an axe and a knife, or how to survive on a coyote's blood if you're waterless in the desert. It renders its portrait of brother-sister love and their pitiless world of the badlands of northern Utah with some of Denis Johnson's flamboyant lyricism, when it comes to longings for transcendence, and with more than a little of Cormac McCarthy's implacable vision of a world in which we survive by doing the thing most others could not bring themselves to do." --Jim Shepard, Story Prize winner and author of The World to Come and Like You'd Understand, Anyway "A wild and alive debut, full of grit, gunfire, blood, and bad news. Rough Animals is as phantasmagoric as McCarthy and as pitiless as Jim Thompson. A rare treat." --Joshua Ferris, bestselling author of The Dinner Party and Then We Came to an End "DelBianco's captivating debut, Rough Animals, stakes its claim to the modern Western, substituting assault weapons for six-shooters and cartel members for the old-fashioned gunslingers in a story told with a style of classic American grit."--Douglas Brunt, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosts of Manhattan and The Means "In this high-octane, take-no-prisoners debut, Rae DelBianco portrays the mayhem and grit of the new West with the demon eye of Cormac McCarthy but a fierce heart very much her own. I dare you to draw a breath from beginning to end." --Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of A House Among the Trees and Three Junes " Rough Animals is not only a wild, unnerving story, but a heart-hammering experience. . . . If you like The Godfather , The Patriot , or any other epics full of revenge, familial bonds, and brutal bloodshed, you're sure to enjoy Rough Animals ."-- mybookishbones

SynopsisFor readers of Ron Rash and Donald Ray Pollock comes a debut modern Western where Breaking Bad meets No Country for Old Men, The 25 Best Thriller Books of the Summer-- New York Post Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018 -- Southern Living 46 Great Books to Read This Summer -- Nylon Dazzling Debuts" --WYPR, "The Weekly Reader" 8 New Books You Should Read This June -- vulture.com Summer Thrillers That Will Have You at the Edge of Your Chaise Lounge -- Refinery29 What We Read, Watched, and Listened to in May -- Outside " Furious and electric . . . a fever dream. "-- Publishers Weekly , *Starred Review * Breaking Bad meets No Country for Old Men ... Ever since their father's untimely death five years before, Wyatt Smith and his inseparably close twin sister, Lucy, have scraped by alone on their family's isolated ranch in Box Elder County, Utah. That is until one morning when, just after spotting one of their steers lying dead in the field, Wyatt is hit in the arm by a hail of gunfire that takes four more cattle with it. The shooter: a fever-eyed, fearsome girl-child with a TEC-9 in her left hand and a worn shotgun in her right. They hold the girl captive, but she breaks loose overnight and heads south into the desert. With the dawning realization that the loss of cattle will mean the certain loss of the ranch, Wyatt feels he has no choice but to go after her and somehow find restitution for what's been lost. Wyatt's decision sets him on an epic twelve-day odyssey through a nightmarish underworld he only half understands; a world that pitches him not only against the primordial ways of men and the beautiful yet brutally unforgiving landscape, but also against himself. As he winds his way down from the mountains of Box Elder to the mesas of Monument Valley and back, Wyatt is forced to look for the first time at who he is and what he's capable of, and how those hard truths set him irrevocably apart from the one person he's ever really known and loved. Steeped in a mythic, wildly alive language of its own, and gripping from the first gunshot to the last, Rough Animals is a tour de force from a powerful new voice., The 25 Best Thriller Books of the Summer-- New York Post Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018 -- Southern Living 46 Great Books to Read This Summer -- Nylon Dazzling Debuts" --WYPR, "The Weekly Reader" 8 New Books You Should Read This June -- vulture.com Summer Thrillers That Will Have You at the Edge of Your Chaise Lounge -- Refinery29 What We Read, Watched, and Listened to in May -- Outside " Furious and electric . . . a fever dream. "-- Publishers Weekly , *Starred Review!* Breaking Bad meets No Country for Old Men ... Ever since their father's untimely death five years before, Wyatt Smith and his inseparably close twin sister, Lucy, have scraped by alone on their family's isolated ranch in Box Elder County, Utah. That is until one morning when, just after spotting one of their steers lying dead in the field, Wyatt is hit in the arm by a hail of gunfire that takes four more cattle with it. The shooter: a fever-eyed, fearsome girl-child with a TEC-9 in her left hand and a worn shotgun in her right. They hold the girl captive, but she breaks loose overnight and heads south into the desert. With the dawning realization that the loss of cattle will mean the certain loss of the ranch, Wyatt feels he has no choice but to go after her and somehow find restitution for what's been lost. Wyatt's decision sets him on an epic twelve-day odyssey through a nightmarish underworld he only half understands; a world that pitches him not only against the primordial ways of men and the beautiful yet brutally unforgiving landscape, but also against himself. As he winds his way down from the mountains of Box Elder to the mesas of Monument Valley and back, Wyatt is forced to look for the first time at who he is and what he's capable of, and how those hard truths set him irrevocably apart from the one person he's ever really known and loved. Steeped in a mythic, wildly alive language of its own, and gripping from the first gunshot to the last, Rough Animals is a tour de force from a powerful new voice.

LC Classification NumberPS3604.E427R68 2018