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Beyond the Horizon
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About The Book
As their parallel journeys unfold, we learn of the man’s childhood working with his father on a ship rife with cannibalism and their subsequent life in a port town; we watch the stranger as he assumes many guises to shape-shift his way through history in pursuit of the man, a pawn in his brutal game of rewriting the founding myths of the American West.
Menacing, visceral and lyrical, Beyond the Horizon is an audacious debut: an astonishing sojourn into the darkest parts of Western lore that showcases a bold and enormous new talent in contemporary fiction.
Product Details
- Publisher: Oneworld Publications (April 14, 2015)
- Length: 288 pages
- ISBN13: 9781780747743
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Raves and Reviews
'Ireland’s intensely and brutally violent debut novel sweeps through period and place while exploring the role memory plays in the establishment of creation myths ... a barbaric vision of the West.’
– Library Journal
'Mythical, dangerous and deeply unsettling, you've not read a cowboy story like this before'
– Shortlist
‘Ireland blends fanciful history with magic realism to create a critical allegory of the American expansionist experience ... Intellectual in theme, literary in execution: think Gabriel García Márquez reimagining Little Big Man.’
– Kirkus Reviews
‘With trenchant dialogue, affecting characters, and a page-turner of a story, Ryan Ireland has given readers a mysterious and exciting Western that may become a classic.’
– Ron Hansen, author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
‘An unflinching, soul-searching story about the dangers of the American West. Through the use of lyrical and mythic prose, Ireland explores the darkest regions of desire, ambition, and survival.... Ireland’s voice stands apart and he will surely be marked as a courageous and essential writer.’
– Ann Weisgarber, author of the award-winning The Personal History of Rachel DuPree and The Promise
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