Wounded
By: Percival Everett
Publisher: Faber
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780571232444
Subjects: Horses; Fiction; Training; Gay men; Hate crimes
Description: John Hunt and his Uncle Gus live in the beautiful high desert of Wyoming. A black horse trainer is a curiosity, but at least he's a familiar curiosity in these parts. It is the brutal murder of a gay man, however, that pushes the small community to the teetering edge of fear and tolerance. As the first blizzard of the season gains momentum, John is forced to reckon not only with the daily burden of unruly horses, a three-legged coyote pup, an escape artist mule and an abundance of house guests, but also with a father-son war over homosexuality, his own chances of love and the increasing sense of threat and unease that hangs over the small community as it falls victim to random hate crimes.
Notes: Originally published: St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf, 2005.