Beyond the horizon
By: Ryan Ireland
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781780747743
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Fiction
Description: "In frontier America, a man lives with a pregnant woman who is not his wife. When a stranger appears and advises him to register the baby as his own at a fabled military outpost, the man sets out on a lonely journey across an arid and hostile terrain. Soon after he departs, the stranger kills the woman before setting off in pursuit of the man. As their parallel journeys unfold, we learn of the man's childhood working with his father on a ship rife with cannibalism and their subsequent life in a port town; we watch the stranger as he assumes many guises to shape-shift his way through history in pursuit of the man, a pawn in his brutal game of rewriting the founding myths of the American West. Menacing, visceral and lyrical, Beyond the horizon is an audacious debut: an astonishing sojourn into the darkest parts of the Western lore that showcases a bold new talent in contemporary fiction"--Page 4 of cover.