Ebook {Epub PDF} The Winter Family: A Novel by Clifford Jackman

Clifford Jackman''s debut, The Winter Family, lit my synapses up like a pinball machine. I joined golden-eyed Augustus Winter and his band of merry sociopaths on their journey through the dying West, civilization squeezing in from every angle--this is a raw, blood-splattered picaresque that I 5/5(1). Traces decades in the lives of a post-Civil War Oklahoma family that includes such members as a psychopathic killer, a group of cruel brothers, an impassive ex-slave, a dangerous child prodigy and a pathologically deviant www.doorway.ru Interaction Count:  · Find The Winter Family by Jackman, Clifford at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.

In Jackman's allegorical Western tale, Augustus Winter, with "the strength of will, the sense of purpose, radiating off him like heat," is cut from the same bloody cloth as Blood Meridian's mysterious nihilist, Judge Holden. From the opening page, a vortex of violence rages through the book, leading from Sherman's March to the Sea to Chicago, Arizona and Oklahoma. www.doorway.ru: The Winter Family: A Novel () by Jackman, Clifford and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Find The Winter Family by Jackman, Clifford at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.

CLIFFORD JACKMAN’s debut novel, The Winter Family, published in Canada, the US, France and Germany, was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He lives in Guelph, with his wife, Cathy, and. More about Clifford Jackman. Product Details. Spanning the better part of three decades, The Winter Family traverses America's harsh, untamed terrain, both serving and opposing the fierce advance of civilization. Among its twisted specimens, the Winter Family includes the psychopathic killer Quentin Ross, the mean and moronic Empire brothers, the impassive ex-slave Fred Johnson, and the dangerous child prodigy Lukas Shakespeare But at the malevolent center of this ultraviolent storm is their cold, hardened leader, Augustus Winter—a. The Winter Family was camped in a stand of blackjack oaks. There was no fire but the moon was up, pushing the stars back into the darkness of the sky. Charlie and Johnny Empire lay on their sides, playing cards and bickering. Fred Johnson wrote in his little book and drank whiskey from a cup not much bigger than a thimble.