Rough Animals: An American Western Thriller

Author: DelBianco, Rae

Number Of Pages: 304

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“ Furious and electric . . . The novel succeeds as a viscerally evoked and sparely plotted fever dream, a bleakly realized odyssey through an American west populated by survivors and failed dreamers.”

— Publishers Weekly,

*Starred Review!*

“This take-no-prisoners debut from DelBianco has been compared to Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Ron Rash, Donald Ray Pollock, and Jim Thompson, and rather than argue, we'll just throw in Gabriel Tallent. Against a backdrop of ferocious, visceral, almost psychedelically intense nature writing. . . Man, this 'redneck kid author' can write.”

— Kirkus Reviews,

*Starred Review!*

“In this high-octane, take-no-prisoners debut, Rae DelBianco portrays the mayhem and grit of the new West with the demon eye of Cormac McCarthy but a fierce heart very much her own. I dare you to draw a breath from beginning to end.” —Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of A House Among the Trees and Three Junes

“In this haunting new novel by Rae DelBianco, a child with a gun interrupts the lives of twins Wyatt and Lucy at their ranch in Utah, prompting Wyatt to set out on a harrowing journey across both interior and exterior landscapes?both of which prove equally complex to navigate.”

— Southern Living,

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"Written . . . so provocatively and viscerally."

— Nylon,

“

46 Great Books to Read This Summer”

"A lyrical thriller garnering comparisons to Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson . . . Will appeal to anyone who, like me, watched Godless and suddenly realized they like Westerns after all. . . . To simply describe the plot is to undersell the book's key quality—the way DelBianco's arresting, lyrical sentences seem to activate all five senses, plus your sense of fear."

— Refinery29,

Summer Thrillers That Will Have You at the Edge of Your Chaise Lounge

"Rae DelBianco has a knack for writing action. . . .Once Wyatt is on the road, [she] showcases her talent for rich descriptions of the natural landscape, as well as a lack of abashment in approaching brutality head-on."

— Chicago Review of Books

"Enrapturing . . . A brutal but beautifully written Western."

— vulture.com,

"8 New Books You Should Read This June"

"The tension doesn’t let up. . . . If the narrative keeps you turning the pages, her almost Biblical voice makes you want to stay and dwell on each sentence."

— Outside,

"What We Read, Watched, and Listened to in May"

" [A] dazzling debut."—WYPR,

"The Weekly Reader"

“ A brilliant, incandescent debut that will remind everyone of a young Cormac McCarthy.” —Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Son

“ Rough Animals is the kind of novel that can teach you the mechanics of dissecting a bull with only an axe and a knife, or how to survive on a coyote’s blood if you’re waterless in the desert. It renders its portrait of brother-sister love and their pitiless world of the badlands of northern Utah with some of Denis Johnson’s flamboyant lyricism, when it comes to longings for transcendence, and with more than a little of Cormac McCarthy’s implacable vision of a world in which we survive by doing the thing most others could not bring themselves to do.” —Jim Shepard, Story Prize winner and author of The World to Come and Like You'd Understand, Anyway

“A wild and alive debut, full of grit, gunfire, blood, and bad news. Rough Animals is as phantasmagoric as McCarthy and as pitiless as Jim Thompson. A rare treat.” —Joshua Ferris, bestselling author of The Dinner Party and Then We Came to an End

“DelBianco’s captivating debut, Rough Animals, stakes its claim to the modern Western, substituting assault weapons for six-shooters and cartel members for the old-fashioned gunslingers in a story told with a style of classic American grit.” —Douglas Brunt, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosts of Manhattan and The Means

" Rough Animals . . . is that rara avis: a fiction debut at once sure-footed, almost existentially gripping, and rau...

EAN: 9781628729733

Release Date: 05-06-2018

Languages: English

Item Note: Great shape- pages are unmarked and sharp. Hardcover Used - Like New Ships fast! 2018

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Binding: Hardcover