The Sound of the Trees
  • Published:
    May-2002 (Hardcover)
    Jun-2003 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Historical
  • Time Period:
    19th Century American West 1920's-1930's
  • Pages:
    304
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An extraordinary debut that brings together a hypnotic quest, a thrilling Western, and an unforgettable love story.

Set in the 1930s, The Sound of the Trees tells the story of Trude Mason, who, seeking to escape a brutal father and a violent past, sets out with his mother on horseback on a grueling journey through the extreme desert and mountainous terrain of southwestern New Mexico. Their destination is Colorado, a place Trude imagines to be abundantly fertile, wild, and free. But along the way, Trude finds himself in the clutches of a small New Mexican border town, once again a victim of brutality and lawlessness, this time in the form of a pitiless sheriff and his posse. When they arrest and sentence to death a young woman whose life Trude has saved, he must face an explosive collision between conscience and self-preservation.

Affecting yet unsentimental, written in piercing, unadorned prose, Robert Gatewood's The Sound of the Trees marks the arrival of a vital new literary voice.
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    •  
    • Jun-2003
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312421885
    • ISBN13: 9780312421885
    • First Edition
    • May-2002
    • Henry Holt
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0805068023
    • ISBN13: 9780805068023
    •  
    • Mar-2014
    • Henry Holt
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1466865962
    • ISBN13: 9781466865969
    •  
    • Mar-2014
    • Henry Holt and Co.
    • eBook (Kindle)



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