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'Everett's unsettling, fiercely tangled moral issues linger in the mind.' --Guardian
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I love everything Percival Everett does, from his innovative early satire, to his deft and touching handling of difficult and emotive issues. Exploring themes of tolerance and hatred, Everett's latest novel, possessing a tender wit and an elegant economy of language, introduces John and Gus Hunt, nephew and uncle, black horse trainers in an otherwise Caucasian Wyoming town. Race is never overtly an issue, unless it's that of the Native Americans in town, but the simmering tension present is thrust to the surface when a young gay man is brutally murdered, and John's neighbours become the victims of hate crimes. A novel with a grave timbre, it is nonetheless lightened by its svelte and swift narrative and moments of uplifting compassion.
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An African-American writer who isn't afraid to stray from the subject of race and has large and generous gift for strong story-lines and dramatically astute characterisation, Percival Everett really comes up with the goods with this novel.
Intolerant minorities are, here, focused on the gay world. John Hunt is a whizz with horses and runs a training school where he sorts out animals who have been spooked, badly treated or just had poor training. He doesn't pretend to be anything special (of the horse-whisperer kind), but he has a knack with horses, who like him and to whom he teaches trust. He sometimes takes on extra hands and that's where Wallace Castlebury comes in. Wallace isn't much use but John and his Uncle, Gus, more or less put up with him. Then one day he doesn't arrive for work and it turns out he's been arrested for murder. A gay man has been found with his throat cut and Wallace has been linked with him. There are forensics which bear out the link.
Wyoming State gets national publicity over this crime and before long various groups converge, among them John's friend's son David. The tensions are built up quite slowly, but Everett provides intriguing asides, such as the nearby caves and his background with a deceased wife and a woman neighbour he falls for along the way. The novel builds up to a wrenchingly devastating final few pages. Up until then it has been a fairly low-key read, but always with plenty of impetus.
Of the novels I've read from Percival Everett my favourite is American Desert, which has the advantage of being funny as well as a pastiche of American cult religions, but Wounded comes a good second and I look forward to reading more.
Intolerant minorities are, here, focused on the gay world. John Hunt is a whizz with horses and runs a training school where he sorts out animals who have been spooked, badly treated or just had poor training. He doesn't pretend to be anything special (of the horse-whisperer kind), but he has a knack with horses, who like him and to whom he teaches trust. He sometimes takes on extra hands and that's where Wallace Castlebury comes in. Wallace isn't much use but John and his Uncle, Gus, more or less put up with him. Then one day he doesn't arrive for work and it turns out he's been arrested for murder. A gay man has been found with his throat cut and Wallace has been linked with him. There are forensics which bear out the link.
Wyoming State gets national publicity over this crime and before long various groups converge, among them John's friend's son David. The tensions are built up quite slowly, but Everett provides intriguing asides, such as the nearby caves and his background with a deceased wife and a woman neighbour he falls for along the way. The novel builds up to a wrenchingly devastating final few pages. Up until then it has been a fairly low-key read, but always with plenty of impetus.
Of the novels I've read from Percival Everett my favourite is American Desert, which has the advantage of being funny as well as a pastiche of American cult religions, but Wounded comes a good second and I look forward to reading more.
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An enjoyable read but not as much depth as I had anticipated.
Seemed short and slightly bitter.
Seemed short and slightly bitter.
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Not up to his usual standards
I've read about half of Everett's books and this is the first I'd give fewer than five stars.
His other books have covered more or less serious issues with more or less... Read more
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Published on 26 Mar 2008 by Michael Pockley
"I've never counted people around here. Black or white"
Set in the beautiful but harsh desert plains of Wyoming, Wounded exposes the fear, hatred, and intolerance that can permeate this seemingly idyllic setting. Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2005 by M. J Leonard
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