All Hat - Hardcover

Smith, Brad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0143013602 ISBN 13: 9780143013600

Publisher: Penguin Canada, 2003

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About the Author

Brad Smith lives in Dunnville, Ontario. His first novel, One-Eyed Jacks, was nominated for Canada's Dashiell Hammett Prize. All Hat is his first novel to be published in the United States.

From Booklist

*Starred Review* "The gelding had character and a heart as big as a washtub. He was never destined to be anything more than a ten-thousand-dollar claimer, but that didn't change the fact that he had heart. It was something you couldn't take from him." Ex-con Ray Dokes, just out of prison and trying to live a "half-ass normal life," is talking about a racehorse with a broken leg, but he could just as well be describing himself, or for that matter, this rollicking romp of a novel--except that the book, unlike the horse, has legs enough to run with the big boys. Ray gives half-ass normality his best shot, taking a job roofing houses in rural Ontario, but soon he's concocting a scheme to con local thug Sonny Stanton--the man who raped Ray's sister--out of some of the money Stanton has swindled in various crooked land deals. The scam, involving swapping horses before a big race, proves fascinating on its own, but it's the cast of delightfully eccentric, if not downright loopy, characters who drive the story. Surrounding Ray are Pete Culpepper, a Texas horseman and owner of the gelding with the broken leg; Chrissie, Pete' s foul-mouthed jockey, who, beneath the bravado, has a fair-sized washtub heart of her own; and Etta, Ray's former lover, whose home is about to fall prey to Stanton's land grab. On the other side of the fence, along with Stanton, are a couple of bumbling hired hands who seem to have wandered in from an Elmore Leonard novel. (Dean, one of the bumblers, an ersatz cowboy with illusions of grandeur, earns the epithet "all hat and no cattle.") Canadian author Smith has marvelous control of his material, effortlessly mixing laugh-out-loud comedy with streaks of country noir that call to mind Daniel Woodrell. This is Smith's first novel to be published in the U.S., and it's the best American crime-fiction debut since C. W. Box's Open Season. Bill Ott
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Canada
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0143013602
• ISBN 13: 9780143013600
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312