The outlander - Gil Adamson

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Title
The outlander
Author
Gil Adamson
format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20090105

On a moonlit night in 1903, a mysterious young woman flees alone across the Canadian wilderness, one quick step ahead of her pursuers. Mary Boulton is nineteen years old, half mad, and widowed - by her own hand.
Tearing through the forest with dogs howling in the distance, she is desperate, her nerves burning, and she is certain of one thing only - that her every move is being traced. Two red-headed brothers, rifles across their backs, lurch close behind her: monstrous figures, identical in every way, with the predatory look of hyenas. She has murdered their brother, and their cold lust for vengeance is unswerving.
As the widow scrambles to stay ahead of them, the burden of her existence disintegrates into a battle in which the dangers of her own mind become more menacing than the dangers of the night. Along the way, the steely outlaw encounters a changing cast of misfits and eccentrics. Some, like the recluse known as 'The Ridgerunner', provide a brief respite from her solitude; others, like the Reverend Bonnycastle, offer support only to reveal that they too have their own demons raging inside. As she is plunged further away from civilisation, her path from retribution to redemption slowly unfurls.
A startling transformation of the classic western narrative, The Outlander is the haunting tale of one young woman's deliberate journey deep into the wild.

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'A remarkable first novel, full of verve, beautifully written, and with all the panache of a great adventure'
Michael Ondaatje

'The Outlanderdeserves to be read twice, first for the plot and the complex characters which make this a page-turner of the highest order, and then a second time, slowly, to savour the marvel of Gil Adamson's writing. This novel is a true wonder'
Ann Patchett

The Outlanderis a superb novel and one senses in the fine writing the potential, or perhaps the eventuality, of a major writer. It is also suspenseful to a degree that you are often in a state of physical unrest, a condition only occasioned by first rate fiction'
Jim Harrison

Type
BOOK
Edition
Hardback original
Keyword Index
Women murderers - Fiction.|Widows - Fiction.|Frontier and pioneer life - Canada - Fiction.|Canada - History - 1867-1914 - Fiction.|Adventure stories.
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
389

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