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  • Preseleccionado para el premio Reading the West Book Award for Fiction

  • Una selección de Barnes & Noble de los libros electrónicos independientes favoritos de 2021

  • Una selección de Deep South Magazine para lectura de verano

Intentando escapar de su padre abusivo y generaciones de pobreza cíclica, el joven Jonah Hargrove se une al misterioso río, una adolescente que lleva miles de dólares en metanfetamina robada, y se embarca en una odisea gótica sureña a través de los fondos de los ríos del este de Texas.

Son perseguidos por el narcotraficante local, John Curtis, y su ejecutor asesino, Dakota Cade, con quien River tuvo una relación sentimental. Pero Cade y Curtis tienen sus propios enemigos, ya que su relación con el cartel que controla su suministro de metanfetamina comienza a agriarse.

 

Vigilando a todos está The Thin Man, un asesino silencioso que valora las consecuencias por encima de la misericordia.

Cada persona guarda secretos de los demás, secretos mortales que serán expuestos de manera salvaje cuando sus caminos finales colisionen y todos se vean obligados a aceptar sus elecciones, sus circunstancias y su propia definición de Dios.

Con un elenco colorido de personajes secundarios y una violencia inquebrantable yuxtapuesta a la prosa lírica, River, Sing Out se sumerge profundamente en un mundo siniestro y sanguinario, donde la pobreza opresiva se enfrenta a la necesidad de creer en algo más grande que uno mismo.

"Beasts of the Earth is a leanly structured western, stripping the genre only to its most basic elements. This allows Wade’s prose and philosophical ideas room to shine...a powerful ode to dreaming, beauty and human goodness."

-- Deep South Magazine

"Wade returns with another stark and chilling tale...From reptiles in the swamp hunting prey, to reptilian men, cold and calculating, beasts feature in this disturbing novel...The prose is beautiful."

-- Library Journal

"Wade's pitch-perfect, personality-driven dialogue sings in the voice of life, and his ability to meld existential thought, situational metaphor, and cinematic setting is a full-bodied experience...A soul-deep exploration of a wounded man in crisis, James Wade's Beasts of the Earth...secures his position as an author of extraordinary merit."

-- New York Journal of Books

"...contemplative character development and evocative descriptions of the landscape..."

-- Publishers Weekly

"The story brilliantly weaves together an ephemeral whodunnit with a transcendental puzzle about god and death. James Wade is a master of blending plots in this manner, and this his third novel is a masterpiece. Wade's prose is lyrical, telling a story with a three part harmony of action, metaphor and imagery. The novel's plot is a haunting ballad of evil and an atonement that is as fleeting as it is obscure...All of Wade's language in Beasts of the Earth is melodious, playing on each page a song that grips a reader's heart and soul...The anticipation makes it impossible to stop turning pages until the end. But there is no "needlessly shocking" conclusion, as one misguided reviewer suggests. For the novel's appropriate closing, the story's music just fades away, leaving it to the reader to decide, in true literary form, the reckoning. Few modern novelists have Wade's literary agility, and Beasts of the Earth will certainly delight sophisticated readers."

-- Midwest Book Review

"All Things Left Wild was one of my favorite novels of the last two years, as was River, Sing Out. But neither of those novels could have prepared me for the dark and compelling vision of Beasts of the Earth. I found myself rooting for the characters throughout their near-Biblical tribulations, and the storyline kept me turning the pages, desperate to find out what would happen next. Here we have a novel that blends realism with existentialist philosophy to redefine contemporary Southern fiction. Don't miss this tour de force of modern literature."

-- David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Spur and Anthony Award-winning author of Winter Counts
 

"Like Flannery O'Connor, James Wade explores what it means to be human--our capacity for good rivaled only by our capacity for evil, our weakness alongside our urge for redemption and grace--with gloriously complex characters and gorgeous prose. Beasts of the Earth is a beautiful gut-punch of a novel."

-- Stacey Swann, author of Olympus, Texas
 

"James Wade is a writer of exceptional talent and this novel is his latest entry toward his path to greatness."

-- Scott Semegran, award-winning author of The Benevolent Lords of Sometimes Island and host of Austin Liti Limits
 

"James Wade writes a terrific story, but that isn't what makes him so good. Wade is a craftsman. His books should be read slowly, to luxuriate in his word choices, his sentence structure, his character revelation. That is why he is a joy to read."

-- James L. Haley, Spur Award-winning author of the Bliven Putnam Naval Adventures
 

"James Wade's Beasts of the Earth delivers on the promise of his first two novels with this scorched-earth tale of a solitary innocent struggling against the unrelenting misery of a rural community in the American South who believe him to be a degenerate criminal. Reminiscent of early McCarthy, Larry Brown, or the great Tom Franklin, Wade uses two timelines to weave this intricate story that culminates in a most satisfying crescendo of honor, violence, and the only kind of justice some folks ever get. It's his depictions of noble suffering that strike deepest--I'll be thinking about young Michael Fischer, a boy struggling to hold together that last fragments of his humanity, for a long time. James Wade has all the tools, imagination, and more than enough passion to be at the vanguard of the best Grit-Lit writers of his generation, and I'll be reading whatever he puts out."

-- Matt Bondurant, bestselling author of Oleander City and Lawless

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RÍO, CANTA

  • Preseleccionado para el premio Reading the West Book Award for Fiction

  • Una selección de Barnes & Noble de los libros electrónicos independientes favoritos de 2021

  • Una selección de Deep South Magazine para lectura de verano

Intentando escapar de su padre abusivo y generaciones de pobreza cíclica, el joven Jonah Hargrove se une al misterioso río, una adolescente que lleva miles de dólares en metanfetamina robada, y se embarca en una odisea gótica sureña a través de los fondos de los ríos del este de Texas.

Son perseguidos por el narcotraficante local, John Curtis, y su ejecutor asesino, Dakota Cade, con quien River tuvo una relación sentimental. Pero Cade y Curtis tienen sus propios enemigos, ya que su relación con el cartel que controla su suministro de metanfetamina comienza a agriarse.

 

Vigilando a todos está The Thin Man, un asesino silencioso que valora las consecuencias por encima de la misericordia.

Cada persona guarda secretos de los demás, secretos mortales que serán expuestos de manera salvaje cuando sus caminos finales colisionen y todos se vean obligados a aceptar sus elecciones, sus circunstancias y su propia definición de Dios.

Con un elenco colorido de personajes secundarios y una violencia inquebrantable yuxtapuesta a la prosa lírica, River, Sing Out se sumerge profundamente en un mundo siniestro y sanguinario, donde la pobreza opresiva se enfrenta a la necesidad de creer en algo más grande que uno mismo.

All Things Left Wild by James Wade is a best western book winning the 2021 Spur Award and Reading the West Award and reminds readers of Cormac McCarthy
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  • Ganador del premio Spur 2021 de Western Writers of America a la mejor novela histórica

  • Ganador del premio Reading the West 2021 a la mejor ficción debut

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  • Una selección de Barnes & Noble de los mejores libros electrónicos independientes de 2020

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Después de un robo fallido, Caleb Bentley, de dieciséis años, huye con su mezquino hermano mayor por el suroeste de Estados Unidos a principios del siglo XX. La brújula moral y el coraje interior de Caleb se pondrán a prueba mientras viajan por el duro terreno y se encuentran con aquellos que se han labrado una vida allí, para bien o para mal.

El rico y estudioso Randall Dawson, fuera de lugar en este país agreste y violento, persigue a regañadientes a los hermanos Bentley. Con poca idea de cómo sobrevivir, y mucho menos de cómo vengarse, Randall conoce a Charlotte, una mujer experimentada en las letales formas de vida del Oeste. Juntos navegan por los turbios valores de la justicia por mano propia.

Potente y atmosférico, ALL THINGS LEFT WILD es la mayoría de edad para un hombre, una odisea de mediana edad para el otro, y una ilustración de la violencia y la corrupción que prevalecen en nuestro país en rápida expansión. Esboza ingeniosamente la magnificencia del oeste americano como se refleja en el alma humana.  

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