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Contea di Box Elder, Utah. Il cielo nero comincia appena a stemperarsi nel grigio nebuloso del mattino quando Wyatt Smith, ventitré anni, il viso scuro segnato dal vento, imbraccia il fucile e si inoltra nel campo bagnato di rugiada dove pascola la sua mandria. Superato un crinale, si arresta e rimane senza fiato. Una bestia, un bue di taglia media, è a terra, la fronte squarciata da una pallottola. Mentre nell'aria aleggia un acre odore di ferro, da dietro al bue una figura balza all'improvviso. Wyatt fa appena in tempo a gettarsi a terra prima che una scarica di colpi lo raggiunga, ferendolo al braccio e abbattendo altre bestie. La corsa affannosa nei boschi, il fango che appesantisce le gambe, le mani imbrattate di sangue... il giovane si getta all'inseguimento di un'ombra che fugge, finché dietro un acero, nascosto come un cerbiatto, scorge il tiratore: una ragazzina, alta poco più di un bambino, con il viso impiastrato di fango e addosso una maglietta nera sporca, piena di buchi sulle spalle e sull'orlo. Per Wyatt è un gioco da ragazzi catturarla e condurla nel ranch. La ragazzina riesce però a liberarsi e a fuggire. Il bestiame è perduto e, con il bestiame, forse anche il ranch, su cui gravano pesanti ipoteche. Al giovane Smith non resta che mettersi sulle sue tracce, nella speranza di ottenere un qualche risarcimento. Dalle montagne di Box Elder fino alle cime della Monument Valley e ritorno, la caccia diventa un duro confronto con un paesaggio selvaggio e brutalmente spietato. Perché che cosa può esserci di più inclemente del cielo inaridito dello Utah, che sbianca i teschi, pesta la sabbia nei pascoli e non offre riparo all'arida arsura del deserto del Great Salt Lake?
- ISBN: 8854518468
- Casa Editrice: Neri Pozza
- Pagine: 303
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A huge thank you to Bonnie Brody!!!! Her review gave me chills. I don’t gravitate toward westerns...but I can’t endorse this book highly enough. It’s one of the best books I’ve read this year. The writing is an sensational experience! The characters with blood and death being a constant threat— death Leggi tutto
What’s rougher than having your cattle killed and you are about to lose your property because of it? Why not chase down the 14 year old thug and get her to reimburse you? Yes - it’s a her. And the game of chase begins in the desert and involves the cartel. A gritty, gruesome read- eyeball sockets mi Leggi tutto
This is gritty, violent, bloody and not exactly what I usually read, but it also has beautiful thick prose that I had to read slowly at times and a story that grabbed a hold of me from the beginning even though it took a while to discover motivations. Twins Wyatt and Lucy Smith have enough cattle to Leggi tutto
Copy furnished by Net Galley for the price of a review. You don't want to mess with folks from Box Elder County out there in Utah, where even the young are born old. Harken to the lowing of the cattle and the rhythmic thrum of the cicadas. Off aways, there lies the desert, dead quiet, prickling in i Leggi tutto
Twins Wyatt and Lucy Smith could not be more devoted to each other. Five years ago, their lives drastically changed when Lucy went hunting with father and mistook him for an elk. Wyatt never faulted Lucy but still she "snapped". Now, she seems unaffected by the struggle created by this misfortune. B Leggi tutto
Rae Del Bianco penned a well-written tale with a storyline that swung far and wide. Just over halfway through, about the time I was considering that the novel might have been better suited as a novella, the scene took a devilish twist. It was just what it needed. Actually, what I needed. The main ch Leggi tutto
Rough Animals is the kind of book that makes you realise how beautiful language can be and how someone with the right kind of talent can say even the most mundane things in a jaw-dropping manner. I would never have guessed this is a debut novel. * I have so many quotes to share! But the thing is, they Leggi tutto
More than once I stopped to question what I was doing reading Rough Animals - filled as it was with hardship, graphic violence, drug deals and death. The answer each time? Unquestionably, the writing. Young author Rae DelBianco fashioned her story with intelligent, thought provoking and ma Leggi tutto
3 I should have know this book was not for me stars I should have know that since this book has been compared to those of Cormac McCarthy that is would not be for me. I should have known when it stated that it was gritty, another word for lots of violence that it wasn't for me. I should have known th Leggi tutto
It was a bit of a journey getting to a 4-star rating (as I'll explain), but I heartily recommend Rough Animals . As shared here on Goodreads, I've highlighted numerous, beautifully-written passages, turns-of-phrase, descriptions of setting sometimes breathtakingly rendered, evocative and on-point (I g Leggi tutto
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