Paradise Sky
$34.97
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
26 January 2016
Summary
Meet Nat Love.
Born a slave in Texas, he escapes a lynching and finds a mentor who trains him in shooting, riding, reading, writing and gardening. But the enemies of his youth pursue him, and soon he is on the run again…
In the course of a tumultuous life, he becomes in turn a Buffalo Soldier, a bouncer, a ratcatcher, a sharpshooter, a dime-novel star, a friend to Wild Bill Hickock and a US Marshall. From Texas to Deadwood and back down south, he both dodges and courts violenc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444787177 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444787179 |
| Author: | Joe R. Lansdale |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Mulholland Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 26 January 2016 |
| Weight: | 332g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
Lansdale’s tall tales are reminiscent of other western fiction from Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man onwards but his original, blackly comic prose gives them new vigour. - The Sunday Times
A rip-roaring tale completely in keeping with dime novel traditions and the cinematic hyperbole of Blazing Saddles or Django Unchained - Los Angeles TimesA full-blooded western, served up unapologetically and masterfully…Lansdale is one of those very rare authors who can have his readers howling with laughter during one sentence while bringing tear to their eyes with the next. - BookReporterA sweeping Western epic…Lansdale at his funniest and most energetic, with some of the most engaging writing you’ll read this year - Houston ChronicleEnough guns, glory and goofiness to keep you entertained - LitReactorThroughout Paradise Sky, Lansdale the master storyteller gives lessons in corralling point-of-view, tone, plot, irony, character development and just plain old good writing…may well prove to be Lansdale’s best - Dallas NewsSpeaking with stoicism and a relentless humour, he (Nat) is the perfect narrator for Lansdale’s tale of injustice and ultimately hope. - Daily ExpressAbout The Author
Joe R. Lansdale
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. He has received the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, the Edgar Award, the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature, and seven Bram Stoker Awards. Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard series has been adapted for TV by the Sundance Channel, starring James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas.
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