Jade: Outlaw
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0984304975 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 190 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From the author of Echoes of Glory, winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for best long novel, comes the tale of Jade, a rough man of the old West, molded by a tragic past, an Indian hunter who finds himself falling for a woman raised by Indians, symbol of all the he hates and all that he is. Award winning author Robert Flynn once again takes his readers on a journey to a past they can imagine through his words, with people that are hard to forget, in a story that could be set in a modern day waror placed like it isdeep in the Old West.
His newly published sequel to Jade: Outlaw is titled Jade: The Law.. San Antonio author Robert Flynn's previous novel, Echoes of Glory, won a 2010 Western Writers of America Spur Award. From the AuthorDallas News: Tension crackles throughout this excellent, tautly crafted Western. The outlaw also is being pressured to become a desperate town's lawman. A hater of Indians and tormented outlaw finds himself falling for a woman kidnapped as a child and raised by Indians
"Wonderful book" according to Linda Williams. This is a wonderful book for many reasons. It's classed as a "Western" but it is timeless and a really good read for all contemporary readers--not just people who read Westerns. Here's why--the characterization and the issues it brings up are very timely. Though the characters may be dressed in period clothes, they deal with things like multiculturalism, theology, neighbors, power--all the universal themes that people still deal with today. The author is a master at understanding people, then and now. Also, the book is inspirational. The ending c. Millard said Living close to a fatal edge. Robert Flynn's "Jade: Outlaw" begins with a puzzle. Everyone who knows Jade's story says of him, "I don't know if I could do it, but he did the right thing." Eventually you find out what he did. Was it the right thing? Even by the end of the novel you may not be sure, but by the end of the novel more is at stake, and for Jade doing the right thing is much more complicated.The novel is set somewhere in west Texas, sometime in the 1870s. Most of the story takes place in a very small community close to a spring and straddling a trail used by trains . Imprisoned by hatred, seeking a way out Flynn meticulously conveys the look, language, grit and smell of Texas cattle country in the 1870s, but all that is just the skin of "Jade: Outlaw." In its blood and bone, this novel is a meditation on how human flourishing is threatened when, imprisoned in our own hatreds and fears, we are unable to recognize the humanity of the Other.The title character is a freelance Army scout, wagon train guard and hunter and hater of Indians. He hates and loves a white woman who was abducted by Indians as a girl, became one of them and married a young brave