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CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR MICHAEL ZIMMER Wrangler Award-Winning author of The Poacher's Daughter
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STARRED Booklist on The Poacher's Daughter >--
Booklist on Leaving Yuma "The chase scene in the rocks, in which Wil and his sweetheart find refuge in a fearsome, bat-infested cave, is as harrowing as any you'll read . . . this is a fine western, full of amazing gun lore and agreeable horse sense."
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Booklist on Rio Tinto "Zimmer demonstrates again why he's one of the more interesting voices in western fiction. What could have been a simple, straightforward story about a boy who gets mixed up with some desperadoes is transformed, through a clever story structure, into something with unexpected depth. It's a very personal storytelling style--Roper talking directly to the reader--and, at times, we can hear the wistfulness in his voice, the bittersweet memory of a time when he and the country were raw, young, and full of hope and promise. A stirring tale, well told."
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Booklist on City of Rocks, a Booklist Top 10 Western selection 2012
About the author
"Michael Zimmer is the author of seventeen novels. His work has been praised by Library Journal, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Historical Novel Society, and others. City of Rocks (Five Star, 2012) was chosen by Booklist as a top ten Western novel for 2012. The Poacher's Daughter (Five Star, 2014) received a Booklist Starred Review, and was awarded the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's prestigious Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel (2015). He is a two-time finalist for the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, and author of the American Legends Collection series. Zimmer resides in Utah with his wife, Vanessa, and their two dogs.
Connect with Michael Zimmer at www.michael-zimmer.com.
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