An intimate, melancholy, sensitive thriller - shades of Straw Dogs and Deliverance.
The only thing going for this book was the fact that it's short in length. The back cover sells it as a love story, with intrigue, but the only mystery is why this couple -- who are already divorced, with one in a new relationship -- would agree to go camping together in the first place. Mack, the a...
Five Skies is a lovely, focused work about men, western men trying to cope with their demons, sharing hard physical work and coming to be friends and to help each other through this imposed closeness. Carlson is known mostly as a short story writer. It has been decades since his last novel. Unlike ...
Five Skies follows what should be a fine formula for a short novel: the characters are familiar; the setting is dramatic; the issues are those that have been sounded in a number of novels of the American West. The problem is that the genus of brooding Western men is an overplayed type; while publish...
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