Warlock

Overview

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST: Venture to the Wild West in this classic Western novel about a gun-slinging lawman who must restore peace to a silver mining boomtown. “A riveting Western that's also a work of literature.” —NPR“Among the finest of American novels.” —Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity’s RainbowOakley Hall’s legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction.

Details

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Published

2014-08-05

Pages

488

Language

EN

Categories

Fiction / Westerns, Fiction / Historical / General, Fiction / Humorous / General

ISBN-13

9781590178232