Redeye: A Western - Softcover

Edgerton, Clyde C.

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ISBN 10: 0140254919 ISBN 13: 9780140254914

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1996

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A tale of American expansionism, opportunism, religious fanaticism, and adventure pivots around the discover of ancient Native American cliff dwellings and the 1857 slaughter of pioneers by Mormons and Native Americans near Salt Lake City. Reprint.

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About the Author:

Clyde Edgerton is the author of eight novels, five of which have been New York Times Notables. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and performs with his band, Rank Strangers. Author Web site—www.clydeedgerton.com.

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If it had been left up to the barmy cowboys who populate Edgerton's latest novel, the West would never have been won. There's P. J. Copeland, recent graduate of the Darless Mortuary Science College, who wishes to introduce the modern method of embalming to the good citizens of Mumford Park, Colorado. His idea of a marketing ploy is to dynamite a corpse in the middle of town and claim it exploded because of the heat. There's also P. J.'s nephew, Bumpy, whose attempt to lasso a donkey almost costs him his thumb, as well as the requisite man in black, Cobb Pittman, a bounty hunter who travels with a red-eyed pit bull confined in a saddle bag--oh yes, the pit bull talks. (One wonders, is a talking dog ever a good idea?) The outlandish plot of this tall tale is almost impossible to summarize but revolves around an infamous Mormon attack on pioneers and the excavation of newly discovered cliff dwellings. Because Edgerton roams so far and wide here, his novel never quite hangs together, but he certainly delivers some hilarious set pieces. The author's many fans, accustomed to the rural North Carolina setting of Edgerton's previous five novels, may be a bit startled by this book's move west, but they'll stick around for the ride anyway. Joanne Wilkinson

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