Redeye
  • Published:
    Jan-1995 (Hardcover)
    Apr-1996 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Historical
  • Time Period:
    19th Century American West
  • Pages:
    256
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This New York Times Notable Book is a quirky tale of the Old West from the author of The Bible Salesman, “a master of comic timing” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).
 
“A Hollywood pitchman might call Redeye Eudora Welty meets Mark Twain,” says the New York Times Book Review about Clyde Edgerton's “small gem of a novel,” a witty adventure set on the nineteenth-century frontier.
 
“A rollicking tale . . . The cliff dwellings of southwest Colorado attract a motley crew of explorers in 1892, each with a personal agenda. Abel Merriwether, a local rancher and amateur archaeologist, wants to explore and protect the site; Andrew Collier, an Englishman, wants to write about it; Billy Blankenship, a local businessman, wants to develop it for tourism; Bishop Thorpe, a Mormon saint, hopes to find proof that Jesus visited there 2000 years before; and Cobb Pittman, a drifter with a red-eyed dog, seeks revenge on Thorpe for the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1875. How this diverse bunch converges for an ill-fated tour of the site is unforgettable. A master storyteller, Edgerton proves that he is in full command of his craft no matter what the setting.” -- Library Journal
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    •  
    • Apr-1996
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140254919
    • ISBN13: 9780140254914
    • First Edition
    • Jan-1995
    • Algonquin
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1565120604
    • ISBN13: 9781565120600
    •  
    • Jan-1995
    • Algonquin Books
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jan-1995
    • Algonquin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1565128192
    • ISBN13: 9781565128194
    •  
    • Oct-1995
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0786205369
    • ISBN13: 9780786205363
    • Large Print



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