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This is the story of the Whitelaws, a family whose values are as far flung as the territory they helped settle, and whose most recent generations have pioneered the landscape of dysfunction. The patriarch, Sunny Jim, exerts his perverse control even posthumously, by means of a last will and testament that binds the family fortune to a marriage that ought, by general consent, to be rent asunder. The charms of this particular son in law, lately released from prison, are potent if short-lived; Evelyn Whitelaw, his estranged wife, is quite literally bedevilled by them. And as her mother and sister court this twisted inheritance, her own yearnings point toward a way of life once habitual on the western plains but now embodied only by Bill Champion, the family's rance foreman and Evelyn's one true compass.
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A magnificent new novel about the American West – a mixture of savage comedy and an elegy for what has been lost – from one of America’s great writers. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This is the story of the Whitelaws, a family whose values are as far flung as the territory they helped settle, and whose most recent generations have pioneered the landscape of dysfunction. The patriarch, Sunny Jim, exerts his perverse control even posthumously, by means of a last will and testament that binds the family fortune to a marriage that ought, by general consent, to be rent asunder. The charms of this particular son in law, lately released from prison, are potent if short-lived; Evelyn Whitelaw, his estranged wife, is quite literally bedevilled by them. And as her mother and sister court this twisted inheritance, her own yearnings point toward a way of life once habitual on the western plains but now embodied only by Bill Champion, the family's rance foreman and Evelyn's one true compass.
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A magnificent new novel about the American West – a mixture of savage comedy and an elegy for what has been lost – from one of America’s great writers. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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IN MOST WAYS, old man Whitelaw's funeral was just another scene in the family's life. Read the first page
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