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Whiskey When We're Dry
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In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on herfamily's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbours, she cuts her hair, bindsher chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her gun-slinging fugitivebrother Noah and bring him home.
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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.
"Larison has developed a pitch-perfect voice for his intrepid heroine" - Publisher's Weekly
Whiskey When We're Dry is the story of a surprising heroine... narrated in a voice cobbled out of slang and sagebrush, Larison's novel is a vivid and fast-paced frontier saga" - Kate Manning, author of My Notorious Life
"A thunderclap of originality, here is a fresh voice and fresh take on one of the oldest stories we tell about ourselves as Americans and Westerners. It's riveting in all the right ways" - Timothy Egan, New York Times bestselling author of The Worst Hard Time
"Jess's adventures, recounted in her richly idiosyncratic voice, resemble those of the traditional western hero, but Larison uses them to examine very modern ideas about identity, sexuality and the use of violence." - The Sunday Times
"The punch and intensity of the writing and the voice of Jessie are rather remarkable." - Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail
True Grit meets Blood Meridian meets Mulan." - Stuart Neville
"A powerful, impressive novel with a visceral sense of time and place." - Antonia Senior, The Times
"The punch and intensity of the writing and the voice of Jess are rather remarkable... So, too, is the depiction of her inner life, which lifts the novel high above the run of the mill." - Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail
"This book is clearly a child of Truly Grit... but Whiskey When We're Dry plays it straight and Larison makes the reader believe in the unlikely premise through the remarkable skill with which Jess' narrative voice is realised." - Jake Kerridge, Telegraph
"Larison imbues the romance and wide-open spaces of the classic western with modern gender and racial awareness, giving space to those left out of the classic Old West mythos, but the main draw is Jesse's narrative voice, all folksy eloquence peppered with grit and determination." - Alistair Mabbott, Herald Scotland
Whiskey When We're Dry is a breath-taking novel. At times poetic and thought-provoking. Wash away the dry dusty trail with this whiskey-soaked epic." - Paul Burke, NB Magazine
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Whiskey When We're Dry is celebrated for its strong sense of setting and impressive writing style. Critics admire Larison's ability to use the Western genre to examine themes of gender and identity, offering a modern take on classic myths. The narrative voice of Jesse is highlighted for its unique style, and the novel's depiction of her inner life is considered remarkable, elevating it within the genre. Fans of works like The Sisters Brothers and Blood Meridian may find this novel particularly engaging.
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ISBN: 9780857303189
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 July 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: No Exit Press
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 432
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About the Author
John Larison spent much of his childhood in remote regions of Australia, the Caribbean, Canada, the South Pacific, Alaska, and the American West before graduating from high school in Ithaca, New York. He studied philosophy and literature at the University of Oregon, and became a renowned fly-fishing guide ahead of earning an MFA from Oregon State University, where he stayed to teach while writing Whiskey When We're Dry. He lives with his family in rural Oregon.
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