Winding Stair - Softcover

Jones, Douglas C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451234790 ISBN 13: 9780451234797

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 2011

Synopsis

“Winding Stair is True Grit for grown-ups... A significant and highly entertaining contribution to the popular literature of the American West.”—The New York Times
 
Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1890, is a haven of justice presiding over thousands of square miles known as the Indian Nation, a land that harbors the most hardened criminals in the country. When a woman is found murdered, young attorney Eben Pay, newly arrived to the territory, is pulled into a posse that follows a trail of blood and destruction. Among the dead he discovers a survivor, the beautiful, traumatized Jennie Thrasher, and the question of what she witnessed hangs like a storm cloud over the investigation. From the trial to the courtroom, Winding Stair is a classic historical novel that brings to vivid life a bygone era.

About this title

About the Author:

Douglas C. Jones was a three-time winner of the Western Writers of America's Golden Spur Award, as well as the recipient of their Owen Wister Award of Lifetime Achievement. A native of Arkansas, Jones died in 1998.

Review:

"Winding Stair is True Grit for grown-ups... Jones relies on none of the usual Western trappings; he eschews stereotypes... The historical research is seamless-the story never slows down to admit dull exposition. Winding Stair convinces, utterly, that this is how life must have been in that place at that time... a significant and highly entertaining contribution to the popular literature of the American West." — The New York Times

"Stunning...excellent...superb...You'll not forget it very soon." — Chicago Sun-Times

"A classic Western novel in the finest sense of that often abused term... spare, tough and honest." — Houston Post

"Jones is a meticulous craftsman whose dialects, dialogues, settings, and sayings seem so 'right' and natural that one has the satisfying feeling of having read a novel without one 'false note.'" — San Francisco Sunday Examiner

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0451234790
• ISBN 13: 9780451234797
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324