Fiction

The final book of the Border Trilogy... McCarthy's bleak prose fits the grim landscape and characters that people his writing... an excellent read.

Book Two of the Border Trilogy that began with "All The Pretty Horses". Another good read...

Destined to be a classic of the New West, this book is about the journey of coming-of-age, love, and a romance with the past of the Old West. Excellent read!

This book will blow you away!

This short novel was John Steinbeck's contribution to the war effort at the onset of WWII, when he was working with the intelligence services as a propagandist. Many contemperary American critics panned it as a work of propaganda, since he depicted the soldiers of the "Invader" (a thinly-veiled German army) as men, not as monstrous caricatures. While his book was poorly reviewed in America, in Occupied Europe, it became a sensation, mostly for the reasons it was reviled by American literary critics. "The Moon Is Down" celebrates the spirit of a free, democratic people, fighting back against an overwhelming and oppressive invader through guile and cunning and because of their collective freedom of spirit. As a novel, it is a bit thin, and the characters are rather wooden and one-dimensional. As a novel of concepts and ideals, however, it is a supreme example of brilliant and effective propaganda. Thought-provoking and interesting...

From the author of "Brokeback Mountain" comes this humorous and quirky novel set in the Panhandle of West Texas. A young man on his first real job is sent on what seems like a suicide mission: scout and locate sites for corporate hog farms while not letting the local residents know just what might be moving in next to them. Full of funny and odd characters... just like the Panhandle itself!