{"product_id":"9780805099522","title":"The Ploughmen","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2014\u003cbr\u003eA Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"bleak and brilliant\" (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e) debut novel ,\"one of the finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory, a book that stands alongside Richard Ford’s \u003ci\u003eRock Springs\u003c\/i\u003e, Marilynne Robinson’s \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e, James Welch’s \u003ci\u003eFools Crow\u003c\/i\u003e.\" (William Kittredge)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteeped in a lonesome Montana landscape as unyielding and raw as it is beautiful, Kim Zupan's \u003ci\u003eThe Ploughmen\u003c\/i\u003e is a new classic in the literature of the American West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of this searing, fever dream of a novel are two men—a killer awaiting trial, and a troubled young deputy—sitting across from each other in the dark, talking through the bars of a county jail cell: John Gload, so brutally adept at his craft that only now, at the age of 77, has he faced the prospect of long-term incarceration and Valentine Millimaki, low man in the Copper County sheriff’s department, who draws the overnight shift after Gload’s arrest. With a disintegrating marriage further collapsing under the strain of his night duty, Millimaki finds himself seeking counsel from a man whose troubled past shares something essential with his own. Their uneasy friendship takes a startling turn with a brazen act of violence that yokes together two haunted souls by the secrets they share, and by the rugged country that keeps them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128872255728,"sku":"9780805099522","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780805099522_p0.jpg?v=1769907944","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780805099522","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}