The Outlander

By Gil Adamson
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780061491344, 416pp.)

Publication Date: July 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Paperback

Categories: General

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Indie Next List Highlights 2008

“The Outlander is a breathlessly told tale of a murderess widow who flees into the mountain wilderness, pursued by her vengeance-seeking brothers-in-law. As she makes her hapless way, she meets up with an entertainingly odd series of characters who propel her on her journey, their eccentricities mirroring her sometimes faltering mind. A marvelous adventure in the early 1900s North American West.”

-- Kathleen Johnson, Prairie Lights Books, Iowa City, IA

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Fall '09/Winter '10 Reading Group List

“The Canadian Rockies, described with intensity, are the stage for an outlaw heroine's improbable ride from vengeance, both her own and that of her victim's kin. Thrilling in the way an imaginative page-turner should be, the story is nonetheless hooked upon the barbs of real events and real personalities.”

-- Neil Strandberg, Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO

Description

In 1903 Mary Boulton flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, she has just become a widow–and her husband's killer. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is tormented by mad visions and by the knowledge that her two ruthless brothers-in-law are in pursuit, determined to avenge their younger brother's death. Responding to little more than the primitive instinct for survival at any cost, she retreats ever deeper into the wilderness–and into the wilds of her own mind.

About the Author

Gil Adamson is the author of two books of poetry and a collection of stories, Help Me, Jacques Cousteau. The Outlander is her first novel. She lives with fellow writer Kevin Connolly in Toronto.

Praise For The Outlander…

“THE OUTLANDER deserves to be read twice, first for the plot and the complex characters which make this a page-turner of the highest order, and then a second time, slowly, to savor the marvel of Gil Adamson’s writing. This novel is a true wonder.”
-Ann Patchett

“This remarkable novel opens at full gallop and never slows. Adamson has seamlessly merged a compelling narrative with poetic language to create a work that is full of beauty and heart and wonder.”
-Ron Rash, author of SAINTS AT THE RIVER and SERENA

“A remarkable first novel, full of verve, beautifully written, and with all the panache of a great adventure.”
-Michael Ondaatje

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