Her transformation is mesmerizing, her desperate journey unforgettable. Gil Adamson is the author of The Outlander, which won the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The widow is may just become one of my favorite female characters in literature. The landscape of the novel is mountainous, brutal, unforgivable and picturesque. The Outlander reminded me of other great Western flavored books and films like True Grit and All the Pretty Horses. It's wholly unexpected yet fitting delivering on the expectations promised in the novel’s opening pages. The writing, the characters and the narrative are all as described above. The Outlander according to the dictionary is a stranger or a foreigner and it is up to the reader to determine which character is The Outlander.Īdamson is a creative, descriptive writer and The Outlander is her first novel. The Outlander, Gil Adamson's debut novel, is not one of those books. You will meet the bird lady, the Ridgerunner, the Reverend, the dwarf, the giant and you won't learn the widow's name until 100 pages or so into the story. As the story journeys along you meet a cast of interesting characters straight out of a circus. Michael Ondaatje In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. She succeeds in avoiding her captors for a time and capturing the heart of those reading her story. The Outlander: A Novel (P.S.) by Gil Adamson ( 962 ) 13.99 A remarkable first novel, full of verve, beautifully written, and with all the panache of a great adventure. Written by Canadian poet Gil Adamson, the novel won multiple awards, including the Hammett Prize.

She has dogs on her heels, is wearing a long black mourning dress and is definitely guilty. The Outlander (2007) is a western/historical crime novel.

The 19 year old Widow has killed her husband and is being chased by her two brothers-in-law into the wilderness. Historical fiction meets the wild west in this emotional, heart pounding, run away novel.

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