{"product_id":"9780385539494","title":"The Winter Family: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe \u0026amp; Mail \u003c\/i\u003eTop 100 Book of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for The 2015 Giller Prize\u003cbr\u003eA Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sadistic but mesmerizing...\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e-- The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing a group of ruthless outlaws from its genesis during the American Civil War all the way to a final bloody stand in the Oklahoma territories, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a hyperkinetic Western noir that reads like a full-on assault to the senses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e          Spanning the better part of three decades, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Family\u003c\/i\u003e traverses America's harsh, untamed terrain, both serving and opposing the fierce advance of civilization. Among its twisted specimens, the Winter Family includes the psychopathic killer Quentin Ross, the mean and moronic Empire brothers, the impassive ex-slave Fred Johnson, and the dangerous child prodigy Lukas Shakespeare But at the malevolent center of this ultraviolent storm is their cold, hardened leader, Augustus Winter—a man with an almost pathological resistance to the rules of society and a preternatural gift for butchery. \u003cbr\u003e     From their service as political thugs in a brutal Chicago election to their work as bounty hunters in the deserts of Arizona, there's a hypnotic logic to Winter's grim borderland morality that plays out, time and again, in ruthless carnage.\u003cbr\u003e     With its haunting, hard-edged style, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a feverishly paced meditation on human nature and the dark contradictions of progress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118809727216,"sku":"9780385539494","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385539494_p0.jpg?v=1763694831","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385539494","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}