by Brian Hart
—Dallas Morning News
“Mesmerizing . . . Hart has conjured a singular, searing world. When you step into this novel you submit to its dream . . . you believe in his large gift that leaves you stunned and breathless. A wonderful, unique portrait of a particular landscape I now see anew.”
—Amanda Coplin, author of The Orchardist
“Brilliant . . . Hart paints a vivid picture of the brutality and venality of the old Northwest Territories.”
—Austin American-Statesman
“Hart’s sense of place is brilliant. [T]here are dazzling characterizations [and] a dense, deep and illuminating narrative . . . of greed and ambition and of fathers and sons . . . Think the brutal realities of McCarthy’s Blood Meridian set among the primeval forests of the Pacific Northwest frontier.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A brilliant second novel . . . Hart’s prose is dense and lyrically savage.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Not a writer of half-measures, Hart brilliantly re-creates the rugged life in the Pacific Northwest logging camps of the 1890s. A riveting, powerful tale.”
—Library Journal
“Brian Hart’s The Bully of Order does what only the best works of fiction can do: it brilliantly imagines those parts of life that history all too often fails to record. This is a thoroughly engrossing story told in mesmerizing prose. I highly recommend it.”
—Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds
“After a relatively quiet debut, Brian Hart has come back with a stunning second novel—a work [that] would qualify as a lifetime achievement for most writers. You do not have to read very far to see that Brian Hart has vaulted squarely into the first rank of American novelists.”
—Philipp Meyer, author of The Son
“A very robust story about where I’m living now, Oregon. It’s about the sheer madness and effort that went into logging in that area of the country in the 1800s. It’s really an epic historical tale, and he’s a fantastic writer.”
—Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek
Also by Brian Hart
The Bully of Order
Then Came the Evening
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Digital Edition JANUARY 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-269833-9
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-269832-2
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