{"product_id":"painted-horses-book-malcolm-brooks-9780802121646","title":"Painted Horses","description":"\u003cb\u003eEngrossing . . . 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtraordinary . . . Surprising and satisfying . . . Brooks has fashioned compelling and sympathetic protagonists. . . . John H--orphan, rail rider, cowboy, World War I 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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMalcolm 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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49570198159633,"sku":"GOR007206257","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50323970654481,"sku":"CIN0802121640G","price":3.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50520871502097,"sku":"CIN0802121640VG","price":4.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50943153144081,"sku":"CIN0802121640A","price":3.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52842666328337,"sku":"GOR010364687","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0802121640.jpg?v=1751434083","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/painted-horses-book-malcolm-brooks-9780802121646","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}