The outlander : a novel
Adamson, Gil, 1961-
The outlander : a novel / Gil Adamson - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2008. - 389 p. ; 24 cm.
"Originally published in Canada in 2007 by House of Anansi Press"--T.p. verso.
In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, Mary Boulton has just become a widow-and her husband's killer. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is tormented by mad visions and by the knowledge that her two ruthless brothers-in-law are in pursuit, determined to avenge their younger brother's death. Responding to little more than the primitive fight for life, the widow retreats ever deeper into the wilderness-and into the wilds of her own mind-encountering an unforgettable cast of eccentrics along the way.With the stunning prose and captivating mood of great works like Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain or early Cormac McCarthy, Gil Adamson's intoxicating debut novel weds a brilliant literary style to the gripping tale of one woman's desperate escape.
9780061491252
2007041062
Widows----Fiction
Women murderers----Fiction
Frontier and pioneer life---Fiction
Canada----History----1867-1914----Fiction
Adventure fiction
PR9199.3.A317 / O97 2008
FIC ADA
The outlander : a novel / Gil Adamson - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2008. - 389 p. ; 24 cm.
"Originally published in Canada in 2007 by House of Anansi Press"--T.p. verso.
In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, Mary Boulton has just become a widow-and her husband's killer. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is tormented by mad visions and by the knowledge that her two ruthless brothers-in-law are in pursuit, determined to avenge their younger brother's death. Responding to little more than the primitive fight for life, the widow retreats ever deeper into the wilderness-and into the wilds of her own mind-encountering an unforgettable cast of eccentrics along the way.With the stunning prose and captivating mood of great works like Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain or early Cormac McCarthy, Gil Adamson's intoxicating debut novel weds a brilliant literary style to the gripping tale of one woman's desperate escape.
9780061491252
2007041062
Widows----Fiction
Women murderers----Fiction
Frontier and pioneer life---Fiction
Canada----History----1867-1914----Fiction
Adventure fiction
PR9199.3.A317 / O97 2008
FIC ADA
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