The Winter family
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Clifford Jackman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780385539487
Subjects: Outlaws; Fiction
Description: Traces decades in the lives of a post-Civil War Oklahoma family that includes such members as a psychopathic killer, a group of cruel brothers, an impassive ex-slave, a dangerous child prodigy and a pathologically deviant patriarch.

After their actions during the Civil War lead to a courtmartial, a group of hardened Union soldiers recasts themselves as outlaws, and find that the disorder of Reconstruction allows for all sort of savage freedom. The psychopathic killer Quentin Ross; the mean and moronic Empire brothers; the impassive ex-slave Fred Johnson; dangerous child prodigy Lukas Shakespeare-- but the malevolent center of this 'family' 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.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Oklahoma 1889; title: Georgia 1864; title: Chicago 1872; title: Phoenix 1881; title: Oklahoma 1891; title: Epilogue: California 1900.