Heart of the Country
by Greg Matthews
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Pub Date May 03 2016 | Archive Date Jun 28 2016
Open Road Integrated Media | Open Road Media
Description
“A big sprawling novel of the West as it really was.” —The Denver Post
A dying Indian woman gives birth to a white man's son under a pitch-black prairie sky. In the basement of a Kansas brothel, a husband tends the furnace while his wife services the clientele upstairs. A preacher's mute daughter chases after a broken kite, paying no heed to the dangers lurking underfoot. An Englishman and his humpbacked guide track a phantom white buffalo from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and back again.
A saga as rich and complex as the history of the American West, Heart of the Country bursts at the seams with unforgettable characters and stunning imagery. Tracing the epic journey of Joe Cobden, a half-breed hunchback born on the side of a stagecoach road and raised in the genteel home of a St. Louis doctor, across the vast and unforgiving landscape of the Great Plains, author Greg Matthews exposes the savage truth behind the frontier myth and captures what it was really like to live and die in the Old West.
An enthralling adventure story that combines the poignant realism of Larry McMurtry with the gothic imagination of Stephen King, Heart of the Country is a masterpiece of historical fiction.
A dying Indian woman gives birth to a white man's son under a pitch-black prairie sky. In the basement of a Kansas brothel, a husband tends the furnace while his wife services the clientele upstairs. A preacher's mute daughter chases after a broken kite, paying no heed to the dangers lurking underfoot. An Englishman and his humpbacked guide track a phantom white buffalo from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and back again.
A saga as rich and complex as the history of the American West, Heart of the Country bursts at the seams with unforgettable characters and stunning imagery. Tracing the epic journey of Joe Cobden, a half-breed hunchback born on the side of a stagecoach road and raised in the genteel home of a St. Louis doctor, across the vast and unforgiving landscape of the Great Plains, author Greg Matthews exposes the savage truth behind the frontier myth and captures what it was really like to live and die in the Old West.
An enthralling adventure story that combines the poignant realism of Larry McMurtry with the gothic imagination of Stephen King, Heart of the Country is a masterpiece of historical fiction.
Advance Praise
“A remarkable historical novel . . . Matthews has taken huge risks of subject matter and style and emerged triumphant. . . . A stunning, mesmerizing performance.” —Newsweek
“Harsh . . . Vivid . . . Succeeds in a way in which few novels of the American West have done.” —The Christian Science Monitor
“Think of the Marquis de Sade writing a history of the West. . . . Fascinating . . . A page-turner.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Allows us to see the American frontier experience in a fresh, demystified way . . . Rich . . . Compelling.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A triumphant and captivating novel.” —The Kansas City Star
“A bold and blasphemous story that questions our beliefs and ideas about the Old West.” —Los Angeles Times
“The real dangers of the Wild West are felt here. . . . Heart-stopping.” —New York Newsday
“Pure realism so ingeniously crafted that a reader can believe that the people are real and that it all happened as Matthews wrote it.” —Chicago Tribune Bookworld
“From the first pages, the intensity of Matthews’ coarse-grained narrative involved me with those earthy, often unpleasant characters. He has a way of creating suspense without seeming to do so.” —Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
“Harsh . . . Vivid . . . Succeeds in a way in which few novels of the American West have done.” —The Christian Science Monitor
“Think of the Marquis de Sade writing a history of the West. . . . Fascinating . . . A page-turner.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Allows us to see the American frontier experience in a fresh, demystified way . . . Rich . . . Compelling.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A triumphant and captivating novel.” —The Kansas City Star
“A bold and blasphemous story that questions our beliefs and ideas about the Old West.” —Los Angeles Times
“The real dangers of the Wild West are felt here. . . . Heart-stopping.” —New York Newsday
“Pure realism so ingeniously crafted that a reader can believe that the people are real and that it all happened as Matthews wrote it.” —Chicago Tribune Bookworld
“From the first pages, the intensity of Matthews’ coarse-grained narrative involved me with those earthy, often unpleasant characters. He has a way of creating suspense without seeming to do so.” —Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781504034883 |
| PRICE | $7.99 (USD) |
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