The Lonesome Trials of Johnny Riles
| By: | Gregory Hill |
| Publisher: | Four Winds Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9781935248675 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781935248682 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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“Lonesome Trials” revisits the setting of Hill’s award-winning East of Denver (2012).
Has elements in common with Patrick deWitt, Cormac McCarthy, Kent Haruf, and Willy Vlautin.
However, those authors tend to be frighteningly sober, even bleak. In “Lonesome Trials,” an abundance of dry wit tempers the seriousness. The bare Western landscape is itself a character, and the people placed there are seen as they really are: mostly young, mostly confused, in various states of isolation, all described in the protagonist’s spare voice and wry humor.
The book’s odd twists (a trip to Denver for a basketball game, a drug-filled New Year’s Eve party, a magic cavern, a heroic poodle, and a wry Oedipal ending) contribute to this playful sense of unreality.
Has elements in common with Patrick deWitt, Cormac McCarthy, Kent Haruf, and Willy Vlautin.
However, those authors tend to be frighteningly sober, even bleak. In “Lonesome Trials,” an abundance of dry wit tempers the seriousness. The bare Western landscape is itself a character, and the people placed there are seen as they really are: mostly young, mostly confused, in various states of isolation, all described in the protagonist’s spare voice and wry humor.
The book’s odd twists (a trip to Denver for a basketball game, a drug-filled New Year’s Eve party, a magic cavern, a heroic poodle, and a wry Oedipal ending) contribute to this playful sense of unreality.