4.0
Tom's Crossing
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of House of Leaves comes a magisterial novel about two friends determined to rescue a pair of horses set for slaughter.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Vulture, and Library Journal
“This is an amazing work of fiction. I absolutely loved it. At the heart you’ll find a blood-drenched story of pursuit and two brave and resourceful children. But there’s so much more. I immersed myself. Have never read anything like it.” —Stephen King
Hard to figure how so much awful horror could've started out with just them two horses and not a one yet named...
While folks still like to focus on the crimes that shocked the small city of Orvop, Utah, back in the fall of 1982, not to mention the trials that followed, far more remember the adventure that took place beyond municipal lines.
For sure no one expected the dead to rise, but they did. No one expected the mountain to fall either, but it did. No one expected an act of courage so great, and likewise so appalling, that it still staggers the heart and mind of anyone who knows anything about the Katanogos massif, to say nothing of Pillars Meadow.
As one Orvop high school teacher described that extraordinary feat just days before she died, Fer sure no one expected Kalin March to look Old Porch in the eye and tell him: You get what you deserve when you ride with cowards.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Vulture, and Library Journal
“This is an amazing work of fiction. I absolutely loved it. At the heart you’ll find a blood-drenched story of pursuit and two brave and resourceful children. But there’s so much more. I immersed myself. Have never read anything like it.” —Stephen King
Hard to figure how so much awful horror could've started out with just them two horses and not a one yet named...
While folks still like to focus on the crimes that shocked the small city of Orvop, Utah, back in the fall of 1982, not to mention the trials that followed, far more remember the adventure that took place beyond municipal lines.
For sure no one expected the dead to rise, but they did. No one expected the mountain to fall either, but it did. No one expected an act of courage so great, and likewise so appalling, that it still staggers the heart and mind of anyone who knows anything about the Katanogos massif, to say nothing of Pillars Meadow.
As one Orvop high school teacher described that extraordinary feat just days before she died, Fer sure no one expected Kalin March to look Old Porch in the eye and tell him: You get what you deserve when you ride with cowards.
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“1,228 pages of a story that could easily fit on one page of a Word document with standard margins. It took 4 months and 11 days of my life.”
“As excellent as it is immense, Danielewski crafts a bloody tale of friendship, love, struggle, memory, and horses that reads closer to an ancient epic than a neo-western. It is a task of endurance to complete but you will be so engrossed by the story, enthralled by the writing, and smitten by the characters, both good and bad, that by the end you will feel bittersweet to turn the last page. Sometimes it’s pacing can drag and the author indulges more than is strictly necessary but when the author is this good and the writing this stellar it doesn’t matter. A special offering to the western canon.”BelievableChange and growLikeableMemorableMinor characters stand outMorally ambiguousMultilayeredOriginalRelatableStrong relationshipsStrong villainUnforgettable protagonistAction-packedAddictiveEpic scopeSatisfying conclusionSlow-pacedSlow start, strong finishSteady pacingSuspensefulTwistyUnpredictableWell-structuredBeautifulEvocative imageryExpansiveGrittyHistoricalImmersive world-buildingMajesticPicturesqueRealisticRusticSetting fits the storyVivid descriptionsBeautifully-writtenDescriptiveFlowery/lushOriginalTakes getting used toWittyAbuseAnimal abuseBigotryChild abuseChild lossDeathGriefMisogynyMurderRacismReligious intoleranceSexual assaultViolence
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