Only Killers and Thieves
by:
Paul Howarth (author)
Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power after a tragedy shatters their family in this riveting debut novel—a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor set in the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia—reminiscent of Philipp Meyer’s...
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Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power after a tragedy shatters their family in this riveting debut novel—a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor set in the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia—reminiscent of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and the novels of Cormac McCarthyAn epic Western, a tough coming-of-a
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781911590040
Publish date: 2018-06-07
Publisher: Pushkin
Pages no: 317
Edition language: English
I read this for my RL book club, and I'll admit I was not interested in doing so. (I always get outvoted in every single book club I join.) So I was very pleasantly surprised when this turned out to be pretty excellent and yet another "western" that I can say I actually liked. I've been dithering ...