Painted Horses, Paperback
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Engrossing . . . The best novels are not just written but builtscene by scene, character by characteruntil a world emerges for readers to fall into. ""Painted Horses"" creates several worlds in a seamless and ambitious blend of history, romance, archaeology and nature. . . . Hard to forget. Bob Minzesheimer, ""USA Today"" (4 out of 4 stars) In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In ""Painted Horses,"" now in paperback, a dauntless woman travels into that untamed landscape in an adventure that will change her life. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist who s come to Montana with a huge task before hera canyon as deep as the devil s own appetites. Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is what she expects. John H is a former mustanger with an intuitive genius for breaking horses. A veteran of the U. S. Army s last mounted cavalry campaign, he lives a fugitive life, driven by pursuit of one last wild thing. John H inspires Catherine to see beauty in the stark landscape, and her heart opens to more than just the vanished past. ""Painted Horses"" sings a love song to the horseman s vanishing way of life and reminds us that love and ambition, tradition and progress, often make strange bedfellows. Extraordinary . . . Surprising and satisfying . . . Brooks has fashioned compelling and sympathetic protagonists. . . . John Horphan, rail rider, cowboy, World War II veteran, Paris artist, canyon hermitin particular, has a backstory that is both intimate and sweeping in a way that may remind readers of Michael Ondaatje s ""The English Patient."" . . . ""Painted Horses"" is, after all, one of those big, old-fashioned novels where the mundane and the unlikely coexist. Kent Black, ""Boston Globe"" Malcolm Brooks novel has the hard thrill of the West, when it was sti
