The Which Way Tree
Autor Elizabeth Crooken Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iul 2018
"A
ripping
adventure
[with]
a
show-stopping
finale."--Wall
Street
Journal
"The
stuff
of
legends."--Attica
Locke
"Powerful,
sly,
and
often
charming."--Daniel
Woodrell
ANew
York
TimesEditors'
Choice
pick
Early one morning in the remote hill country of Texas, a panther savagely attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing her mother, whose final act is to save her daughter's life. Samantha and her half brother, Benjamin, survive, but she is left traumatized, her face horribly scarred.
Narrated in Benjamin's beguilingly plainspoken voice,The Which Way Treeis the story of Samantha's unshakeable resolve to stalk and kill the infamous panther, rumored across the Rio Grande to be a demon, and avenge her mother's death. In their quest she and Benjamin, now orphaned, enlist a charismatic Tejano outlaw and a haunted, compassionate preacher with an aging but relentless tracking dog. As the members of this unlikely posse hunt the panther, they are in turn pursued by a hapless but sadistic Confederate soldier with troubled family ties to the preacher and a score to settle.
In the tradition of the great pursuit narratives,The Which Way Treeis a breathtaking saga of one steadfast girl's revenge against an implacable and unknowable beast. Yet with the comedic undertones of Benjamin's storytelling, it is also a timeless tale full of warmth and humor, and a testament to the enduring love that carries a sister and brother through a perilous adventure with all the dimensions of a legend.
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ISBN-13: 9781911617167
ISBN-10: 1911617168
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Scribe Publishing
ISBN-10: 1911617168
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Scribe Publishing
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A loyal brother sets out with his tenacious younger sister to avenge her mother's death at the jaws of a mountain lion in 19th-century Texas.
A loyal brother sets out with his tenacious younger sister to avenge her mother's death at the jaws of a mountain lion in 19th-century Texas.
Notă biografică
Elizabeth
Crook
has
published
four
previous
novels,
includingThe
Night
Journal,which
received
the
Spur
Award
from
Western
Writers
of
America,
andMonday,
Monday,aKirkus
ReviewsBest
Book
of
2014
and
winner
of
the
Jesse
H.
Jones
Award
from
the
Texas
Institute
of
Letters.
She
lives
in
Austin
with
her
family.
Recenzii
"A
multilayered
tale
.
.
.
Benjamin
Shreve,
the
teenage
narrator
ofThe
Which
Way
Tree,unspools
his
tale
of
Civil
War-era
Texas
in
a
voice
that
is
utterly
convincing,
consistent,
and
believable.
Crook
never
slips
out
of
that
voice
for
a
moment.
This
is
no
small
feat
given
that
the
tale
involves
Benjamin's
demented
half
sister,
the
infamous
massacre
of
Union-sympathizing
German
immigrants
by
local
Confederates,
and
a
giant
panther.
Any
first-person
voice
involving
a
young
Southern
boy
invites
comparisons
to
Huck
Finn.
But
dialects
have
complexities
and
Crook
appears
to
be
a
master
of
them.
Benjamin's
voice
swings
between
the
rhythms
of
the
Southern
hills
and
the
lofty,
elevated
tone
encountered
in
Twain
and
contemporary
Westerns
.
.
.
His
speech
can
switch
from
hyperbole
to
understatement
in
the
same
sentence--and
it
is
a
wonderfully
deadpan
understatement
.
.
.
The
language
is
arresting
.
.
.The
Which
Way
Treeis
a
commendable
and
very
readable
addition
to
the
tale-spinning
tradition
and
its
beautiful
use
of
language."—Paulette
Jiles,New
York
Times
Book
Review
"A ripping adventure...Benjamin is a boyishly charming chronicler of the crazed hunt...Samantha's unfinished business leads the makeshift hunters through a gauntlet of disasters to the novel's show-stopping finale. 'Vengeance belongs to the Lord,' the preacher chides her, to which she answers, 'Only if he can beat me to it.'"—Sam Sacks,Wall Street Journal
"An absorbing coming-of-age novel...Benjamin is akeen observer and reliable narrator...These adventure tales, if told well, areplenty riveting and enduring.The Which Way Treeis told well."—Rod Davis,Texas Observer
"Crook manages inThe Which Way Treethe striking feat of not only capturing the voice of a 19th century youth as honestly and compellingly as Mark Twain but also having her Texas Huck recount aMoby Dick-like pursuit across Texas in which the White Whale is a malevolent mountain lion and its Ahab is a girl it mauled while killing her mother."—Austin Chronicle
"Crook's slim,intimate novel illustrates how, at their best, historical westerns provideinsight into human nature tested by the sort of extreme conditions that rarelycrop up in contemporary American settings."—Texas Monthly
"Exuberant . . . Benjamin's voice has echoes ofHuckleberry Finn, while his sister's pursuit of the deadly cat recallsTrue Grit."—Tom Beer,Newsday
"How Crook managed tochannel the voice of a seventeen-year-old boy in 1860s Texas so convincingly Ican't say, but Benjamin is both persuasive and captivating, a fully realizedcharacter that you gladly follow across the Lone Star State. In his youth andlack of education and simple, declarative voice, he calls to mind anotherfigure from nineteenth-century American literature, Huck Finn. Benjamin sharesHuck's keen eye for observing human nature and teasing out some sense of whatit means. His voice is another way in which Crook grips the reader, and may bethe novel's secret weapon . . . Like some of the finest books that came out ofour nation's first century and a quarter,The Which Way Treeleadsus into the wild, where characters must confront both the wildness in natureand the wildness in their own nature. That which is in Sam's heart has theawesome force of a thunderstorm-or a mountain lion-and can no more be tamedthan either of them can. But Elizabeth Crook has at least wrestled hers ontothe page and lets us get close to it, close enough for the hairs on our arms torise.In this remarkable novel, she's given us something wild to wonder at,and to be moved by."—Robert Faires,Austin Chronicle
"This riveting Western has a bit ofTrue Gritfeel."—CJ Lotz,Garden & Gun
"The story is intriguing . . . A page-turner."—Mike Yawn,Houston Chronicle
"Samantha is frustrating and, like her brother Benjamin, sometimes I too wanted to strangle her, but I couldn't help but root for her . . . Crook's novel keeps the plot moving fast and the dramatic tension high . . . It's a story that hooked me from the get-go, and when Benjamin finishes his last letter to the judge, I wanted the story to continue . . . Fans of Paulette Jiles'sNews of the Worldwill be gratified to find another well-told, old-time Texas tale of big adventure and big characters."—Emily Spicer,San Antonio Express News
"The Which Way Treeis adventurous, suspenseful, and charming...you're going to want to read this one."—Elizabeth Entenman,HelloGiggles
"The Which WayTreeis unlike anything I've read before...an enthralling adventure, a Texasfairy tale in the truest sense of that term."—Michelle Newby,Lone Star Literary Life
"When I began to read this book its unique voiceappealed to me immediately. Elizabeth Crook has written a beautiful novel withwonderful characters."—Robert Duvall
"Elizabeth Crook has invented a brilliant way ofseeing the old Texas frontier: at very close range, through the eyes of awise-beyond-his-years seventeen-year-old boy and the sister whose defiant questhe joins. The result is a small-scale masterwork, richly detailed andbeautifully rendered."—S. C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon
" 'PreacherDob said, Vengeance belongs to the Lord, Samantha. She said, Only if he canbeat me to it.' This told me everything I needed to know about Samantha Shreve,a character who knocked my socks off from her first appearance on the page.This book is the stuff of legends, tales told for a hundred years around Texascampfires. Written in a form that is historically accurate and yet feelspainstakingly intimate,The Which Way Treeis unlike anything I'veread before."—Attica Locke,author of Bluebird, Bluebird
"The WhichWay Treeis one partTrack of the Cat, one partTrue Grit,and one partTom Sawyer,a ruthless pedigree for a novel thatdisplays human nature in its most beautiful form--a marvel."—Craig Johnson,New York Times bestselling author of The Western Star, a Walt Longmire mystery
"InThe Which Way Tree, Elizabeth Crook has conjured a powerful, sly, andoften charming tale delivered in the winning voice of Benjamin. This novel is afast-paced story resonating with rich characters and mythic elements that cometo us as folklore that mustn't be doubted."—Daniel Woodrell,author ofWinter's BoneandThe Maid's Version
"ElizabethCrook has created a book of marvels. Its comedy is steeped in the hardscrabbletragedies of a wilder old America. You will even catch an echo of Twain's witin the picaresque narration."—Luis Alberto Urrea,author of the national bestseller The Hummingbird's Daughter
"NotsinceTrue Grithave I read a novel this charming, exciting, suspenseful,and pitch-perfect.The Which Way Treeis winning from first page to last."—Ron Hansen,author of The Kid and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
"Recalls CormacMcCarthy's horseback meandering and keen eye for terrain and flora inTheCrossing. There are also obvious echoes ofTrue Grit, though Sam iseven more fiercely single-minded than Mattie . . . An entertaining picture ofharsh, stark life in the Old West."—Kirkus Reviews
"Poignant and plainspoken...Crook crafts Benjamin's narratoin beautifully, finding a winning balance between naivete and wisdom, thoughtfulness and grit."—Publishers Weekly
"This is a story of unremitting deprivation allayed by unexpected kindness, with a dangerous chase motivated by love and suffused with humanity."—Michele Leber,Booklist
"A ripping adventure...Benjamin is a boyishly charming chronicler of the crazed hunt...Samantha's unfinished business leads the makeshift hunters through a gauntlet of disasters to the novel's show-stopping finale. 'Vengeance belongs to the Lord,' the preacher chides her, to which she answers, 'Only if he can beat me to it.'"—Sam Sacks,Wall Street Journal
"An absorbing coming-of-age novel...Benjamin is akeen observer and reliable narrator...These adventure tales, if told well, areplenty riveting and enduring.The Which Way Treeis told well."—Rod Davis,Texas Observer
"Crook manages inThe Which Way Treethe striking feat of not only capturing the voice of a 19th century youth as honestly and compellingly as Mark Twain but also having her Texas Huck recount aMoby Dick-like pursuit across Texas in which the White Whale is a malevolent mountain lion and its Ahab is a girl it mauled while killing her mother."—Austin Chronicle
"In
the
tradition
of
Charles
Portis's
classicTrue
Grit,
Elizabeth
Crook's
heart-pounding
adventure,The
Which
Way
Tree,
features
a
tough-as-nails
orphan
in
pursuit
of
frontier
justice...you'll
follow
Sam
to
the
ends
of
the
earth."
—Natalie
Beach,O
Magazine"Crook's slim,intimate novel illustrates how, at their best, historical westerns provideinsight into human nature tested by the sort of extreme conditions that rarelycrop up in contemporary American settings."—Texas Monthly
"Exuberant . . . Benjamin's voice has echoes ofHuckleberry Finn, while his sister's pursuit of the deadly cat recallsTrue Grit."—Tom Beer,Newsday
"How Crook managed tochannel the voice of a seventeen-year-old boy in 1860s Texas so convincingly Ican't say, but Benjamin is both persuasive and captivating, a fully realizedcharacter that you gladly follow across the Lone Star State. In his youth andlack of education and simple, declarative voice, he calls to mind anotherfigure from nineteenth-century American literature, Huck Finn. Benjamin sharesHuck's keen eye for observing human nature and teasing out some sense of whatit means. His voice is another way in which Crook grips the reader, and may bethe novel's secret weapon . . . Like some of the finest books that came out ofour nation's first century and a quarter,The Which Way Treeleadsus into the wild, where characters must confront both the wildness in natureand the wildness in their own nature. That which is in Sam's heart has theawesome force of a thunderstorm-or a mountain lion-and can no more be tamedthan either of them can. But Elizabeth Crook has at least wrestled hers ontothe page and lets us get close to it, close enough for the hairs on our arms torise.In this remarkable novel, she's given us something wild to wonder at,and to be moved by."—Robert Faires,Austin Chronicle
"This riveting Western has a bit ofTrue Gritfeel."—CJ Lotz,Garden & Gun
"The story is intriguing . . . A page-turner."—Mike Yawn,Houston Chronicle
"Samantha is frustrating and, like her brother Benjamin, sometimes I too wanted to strangle her, but I couldn't help but root for her . . . Crook's novel keeps the plot moving fast and the dramatic tension high . . . It's a story that hooked me from the get-go, and when Benjamin finishes his last letter to the judge, I wanted the story to continue . . . Fans of Paulette Jiles'sNews of the Worldwill be gratified to find another well-told, old-time Texas tale of big adventure and big characters."—Emily Spicer,San Antonio Express News
"The Which Way Treeis adventurous, suspenseful, and charming...you're going to want to read this one."—Elizabeth Entenman,HelloGiggles
"The Which WayTreeis unlike anything I've read before...an enthralling adventure, a Texasfairy tale in the truest sense of that term."—Michelle Newby,Lone Star Literary Life
"When I began to read this book its unique voiceappealed to me immediately. Elizabeth Crook has written a beautiful novel withwonderful characters."—Robert Duvall
"Elizabeth Crook has invented a brilliant way ofseeing the old Texas frontier: at very close range, through the eyes of awise-beyond-his-years seventeen-year-old boy and the sister whose defiant questhe joins. The result is a small-scale masterwork, richly detailed andbeautifully rendered."—S. C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon
" 'PreacherDob said, Vengeance belongs to the Lord, Samantha. She said, Only if he canbeat me to it.' This told me everything I needed to know about Samantha Shreve,a character who knocked my socks off from her first appearance on the page.This book is the stuff of legends, tales told for a hundred years around Texascampfires. Written in a form that is historically accurate and yet feelspainstakingly intimate,The Which Way Treeis unlike anything I'veread before."—Attica Locke,author of Bluebird, Bluebird
"The WhichWay Treeis one partTrack of the Cat, one partTrue Grit,and one partTom Sawyer,a ruthless pedigree for a novel thatdisplays human nature in its most beautiful form--a marvel."—Craig Johnson,New York Times bestselling author of The Western Star, a Walt Longmire mystery
"InThe Which Way Tree, Elizabeth Crook has conjured a powerful, sly, andoften charming tale delivered in the winning voice of Benjamin. This novel is afast-paced story resonating with rich characters and mythic elements that cometo us as folklore that mustn't be doubted."—Daniel Woodrell,author ofWinter's BoneandThe Maid's Version
"ElizabethCrook has created a book of marvels. Its comedy is steeped in the hardscrabbletragedies of a wilder old America. You will even catch an echo of Twain's witin the picaresque narration."—Luis Alberto Urrea,author of the national bestseller The Hummingbird's Daughter
"NotsinceTrue Grithave I read a novel this charming, exciting, suspenseful,and pitch-perfect.The Which Way Treeis winning from first page to last."—Ron Hansen,author of The Kid and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
"Recalls CormacMcCarthy's horseback meandering and keen eye for terrain and flora inTheCrossing. There are also obvious echoes ofTrue Grit, though Sam iseven more fiercely single-minded than Mattie . . . An entertaining picture ofharsh, stark life in the Old West."—Kirkus Reviews
"Poignant and plainspoken...Crook crafts Benjamin's narratoin beautifully, finding a winning balance between naivete and wisdom, thoughtfulness and grit."—Publishers Weekly
"This is a story of unremitting deprivation allayed by unexpected kindness, with a dangerous chase motivated by love and suffused with humanity."—Michele Leber,Booklist
While
hunting
near
his
Texas
home
at
the
end
of
the
Civil
War,
Benjamin
Shreve
witnesses
a
Confederate
soldier,
Clarence
Hanlin,
picking
the
pockets
of
eight
hanged
men.
The
17-year-old
orphan
is
called
to
court
to
testify
about
what
he
saw.
In
letters
to
the
judge,
Benjamin
tells
the
epic
tale
of
the
panther
that
killed
his
stepmother
and
disfigured
his
stepsister,
Samantha.
Clarence
plays
a
bizarre
role
in
the
tale,
helping
and
hindering
Samantha's
Ahab-like
quest
for
vengeance
against
the
panther.
Benjamin,
frank
and
quick-witted,
tells
a
story
that
is
absorbing
and
satisfying.
He
doesn't
dwell
on
his
hardships
but
focuses
on
Samantha's
single-minded
pursuit
of
the
panther
and
the
cold-blooded
soldier
who
ended
up
in
the
middle
of
it
all.
VERDICT:
Spur-Award-winning
Crook's
(The
Night
Journal;
Monday,
Monday)
fifth
novel
will
be
a
must-read
for
fans
of
Joe
Lansdale's
Western
adventures
and
Patrick
deWitt's
The
Sisters
Brothers.
Readers
new
to
the
Western
genre
will
be
hooked
if
they
start
with
this
compelling
novel.
—Emily
Hamstra,Library
Journal