Forest Of Fortune
by Jim Ruland
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Pub Date Jul 31 2014 | Archive Date Apr 07 2014
F+W Media/Adams Media | Gallery Books
Description
Forest of Fortune tells the story of three haunted souls--an alcoholic, an epileptic, and a gambling addict--who try to turn their luck around at a decrepit Indian casino. But something's not right at Thunderclap Casino. As the three of them come to terms with the ways in which they are haunted by the past and struggle with their addictions, they must confront the malevolent force that won't rest until old wrongs have been made right.
Advance Praise
“Beguiling, nimble, and wonderfully weird…an out-of-left-field gem….”
—Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers
"A little spooky, very funny, and thoroughly engrossing from start to finish. Ruland writes with real aplomb and takes no prisoners." —Fiona Maazel, author of Woke Up Lonely
"Jim Ruland's debut novel Forest of Fortune celebrates casino luck, mostly bad. A tour de force about a casino's back rooms and environs, Forest of Fortune delivers on the seductive hardboiled territory of dread and despair. I'd bet plenty that you'll like this." —Terese Svoboda, author of Bohemian Girl
"American culture is now casino culture, as anyone with a mortgage or student loan or 401(k) knows all too well. Jim Ruland's terrific novel gets to the heart of the matter, his characters struggling mightily to keep their heads above water, to find something better, something more, in all the wrong places." —Scott O'Connor, author of Untouchable and Half World
"...captures the soul and voice of hard-luck, hard-living Americans in a way that conjures up earlier masters like Raymond Carver and Richard Ford. Jim Ruland has an uncanny ability to get inside his characters...."—Jerry Stahl, author of Happy Mutant Baby Pills and Permanent Midnight
—Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers
"A little spooky, very funny, and thoroughly engrossing from start to finish. Ruland writes with real aplomb and takes no prisoners." —Fiona Maazel, author of Woke Up Lonely
"Jim Ruland's debut novel Forest of Fortune celebrates casino luck, mostly bad. A tour de force about a casino's back rooms and environs, Forest of Fortune delivers on the seductive hardboiled territory of dread and despair. I'd bet plenty that you'll like this." —Terese Svoboda, author of Bohemian Girl
"American culture is now casino culture, as anyone with a mortgage or student loan or 401(k) knows all too well. Jim Ruland's terrific novel gets to the heart of the matter, his characters struggling mightily to keep their heads above water, to find something better, something more, in all the wrong places." —Scott O'Connor, author of Untouchable and Half World
"...captures the soul and voice of hard-luck, hard-living Americans in a way that conjures up earlier masters like Raymond Carver and Richard Ford. Jim Ruland has an uncanny ability to get inside his characters...."—Jerry Stahl, author of Happy Mutant Baby Pills and Permanent Midnight
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781440579899 |
| PRICE | $24.99 (USD) |
