{"product_id":"9780802123817","title":"Painted Horses","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e“Engrossing . . . The best novels are not just written but built—scene by scene, character by character—until a world emerges for readers to fall into. \u003ci\u003ePainted Horses\u003c\/i\u003e creates several worlds in a seamless and ambitious blend of history, romance, archaeology and nature. . . . Hard to forget.” —Bob Minzesheimer, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e (4 out of 4 stars)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In \u003ci\u003ePainted Horses\u003c\/i\u003e, now in paperback, a dauntless woman travels into that untamed landscape in an adventure that will change her life. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist who’s come to Montana with a huge task before her—a canyon “as deep as the devil’s own appetites.” Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is what she expects. John H is a former mustanger with an intuitive genius for breaking horses. A veteran of the U.S. Army’s last mounted cavalry campaign, he lives a fugitive life, driven by pursuit of one last wild thing. John H inspires Catherine to see beauty in the stark landscape, and her heart opens to more than just the vanished past.  \u003ci\u003ePainted Horses\u003c\/i\u003e sings a love song to the horseman’s vanishing way of life and reminds us that love and ambition, tradition and progress, often make strange bedfellows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Extraordinary . . . Surprising and satisfying . . . Brooks has fashioned compelling and sympathetic protagonists. . . . John H—orphan, rail rider, cowboy, World War II veteran, Paris artist, canyon hermit—in particular, has a backstory that is both intimate and sweeping in a way that may remind readers of Michael Ondaatje’s \u003ci\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . \u003ci\u003ePainted Horses\u003c\/i\u003e is, after all, one of those big, old-fashioned novels where the mundane and the unlikely coexist.”—Kent Black, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Malcolm Brooks’ novel has the hard thrill of the West, when it was still a new world, the tenderness of first love and the pain of knowledge. This book is a gripping, compulsively readable page-turner.”—Amy Bloom, author of \u003ci\u003eAway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Malcolm Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45001832431776,"sku":"9780802123817","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_58bef23d-01e1-4e76-bd9e-2b083bee05c9.jpg?v=1686597446","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780802123817","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}