Paradise Sky

Meet Nat Love. Born a slave in Texas, he escapes a lynching and finds a mentor who trains him in shooting, riding, reading, writing and gardening. But the enemies of his youth pursue him, and soon he is on the run again... In the course of a tumultuous life, he becomes in turn a Buffalo Soldier, a bouncer, a ratcatcher, a sharpshooter, a dime-novel star, a friend to Wild Bill Hickock and a US Marshall. From Texas to Deadwood and back down south, he both dodges and courts violence, hoping one day to get his revenge. Featuring cowboys, Apaches, buffalo and much, much more, this is a mostly true tale of how the West was won from one of America's most original writers.

Report

Lansdale's tall tales are reminiscent of other western fiction from Thomas Berger's Little Big Man onwards but his original, blackly comic prose gives them new vigour. The Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Joe R. Lansdale
• Publisher: Mulholland Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.01.2016
• EAN: 9781444787177
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-8717-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Mulholland Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Thrillers / General, FICTION / Crime, Historical fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Westerns, Adventure fiction: Westerns, FICTION / African American & Black / Historical