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Whiskey When We're Dry (Paperback)
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Whiskey When We're Dry (Paperback)
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List price R344
Loot Price R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
You Save R98 (28%)
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Shortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown A
gritty and lyrical American epic about a young woman who disguises
herself as a boy and heads West. In the spring of 1885,
seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone
on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and
predatory neighbours, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, saddles
her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her
gun-slinging fugitive brother Noah and bring him home. A talented
sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the
territory's violent, capricious governor, whose militia is also
hunting Noah - dead or alive. Wrestling with her brother's outlaw
identity, and haunted by questions of her own, Jess must
outmanoeuvre those who underestimate her, ultimately rising to
become a hero in her own right. Told in Jess's wholly original and
unforgettable voice, the story brims with page-turning Western
action, but its approach is modern and nuanced, touching on
powerful issues from gender and sexuality to family and identity.
In the sweeping storytelling tradition of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome
Dove and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, Whiskey When We're Dry
transcends the straight-and-narrow Western to land among the
classics.
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