JAMES WADE
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.
"James Wade is a poet of the dark. With gorgeous lyricism, he writes of men and women caught in the bleakest of circumstances and the choices that must be made when desperate times require desperate measures. It's been forever since I read a novel so stunning in its language and so moving in its effect. Read this book and prepare to be amazed."
-- William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace and This Tender Land
"Narrative prowess and atmospheric prose echo the works of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy, resulting in a rich, character-driven story."
-- "Deep South Magazine"
"Hollow Out the Dark is a major achievement in Southern noir, a Prohibition-era crime epic that is at heart an affecting exploration of brotherhood in its many forms. With lyrical prose and sly period dialogue, James Wade builds a propulsive narrative that explodes with revelation. A haunting read that lingers in the memory long after the final page."
-- "Scott Von Doviak, Edgar Award-nominated author of Lowdown Road and Charlesgate Confidential"
"A war-for-whiskey Western in a small Texas town with prose that sings like Cormac, Woodrell, and Walter Hill formed a boy band. James Wade has packed a wallop of a gothic gut-punch about discovering where one's moral compass may land while spinning in a Depression-era storm of violence, corruption, and the hardest of times."
-- "Mike McCrary, author of Someone Savage and the Remo Cobb series"
"In Hollow Out the Dark, James Wade's latest Southern-gothic feat, Wade stitches a propulsive tale with Biblical thread, fueling it with whiskey, tucking secrets beneath the floorboards, and draping the Depression-era landscape with suspense. Wade builds himself a well-deserved seat, pulling it to the literary table to sit alongside the likes of Ron Rash, Faulkner, and Cormac McCarthy."
-- "Robert Gwaltney, author of The Cicada Tree, and Georgia Author of the Year"
"With addictive prose and a style all his own, James Wade delivers another powerful read. Part Western, part Southern lit, part thriller, part mystery, part character study set in rural East Texas in the 1930s, Hollow Out the Dark is a mesmerizing story, dark, raw, and original."
-- "Johnny D. Boggs, nine-time Spur Award winner "
"If John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy have a present-day successor, it must be James Wade. As intoxicating and robust as its subject matter, Hollow Out the Dark is a Prohibition-era tale that poignantly reminds us although times may change, the human spirit remains frighteningly and unflinchingly the same. Wade distills language with the artistry of an expert craftsman and the fearlessness of a bootlegger.At once heartbreaking and hopeful, this book cements Wade's growing stature as a standard-bearer of Southern-gothic literature while proving yet again that he is one of the most distinctive voices of our time."
-- "Rudy Ruiz, award-winning author of Valley of Shadows and The Border Between Us"
"In Hollow Out the Dark, James Wade casts a cold East Texas landscape in all its grim glory, reflecting the hearts of the men who battle for their piece of it. This prohibition-era Western is no simple tale of bootleggers and lawmen but a meditation on morality in which even the good must choose their own corruption. Wade imbues poetry, philosophy, and craftsmanship in his prose. From story, to scene, to sentence, his care is present in each word. A joy to read."
-- "Caroline Frost, award-winning author of The Last Verse and Shadows of Pecan Hollow"
"James Wade's newest novel, Hollow Out the Dark, is a masterpiece of atmospheric crime fiction; a worthy successor to the likes of William Gay and Cormac McCarthy. Set in East Texas, it is an epic, and age-old, story of greed and generational betrayal--where vengeance is swift and forgiveness a long time coming."
-- "Kathleen Kent, New York Times bestselling author of Black Wolf "
"With his characteristic insight and imagination, James Wade takes us to another era and makes it tremble with authenticity. The manner in which Wade sees life so clearly, even in the dark, creates a psychology of characters carefully wrought. Wade's distinctive lyricism threads the narrative and his pitch-perfect rendering of the biome of the piney woods throbs with metaphor, running through the novel like a river, clean and clear."
-- "Lucy Griffith, WILLA Literary Award-winning poet"
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.
"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
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.
TODAS LAS COSAS SALVAJES
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
Selección de un club de lectura del alcalde de Austin, Texas
Una selección de Barnes & Noble de los mejores libros electrónicos independientes de 2020
Una selección de PopSugar de libros de ficción histórica fascinantes
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.