Blue Horse Dreaming - Softcover

Wallace, Melanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846551471 ISBN 13: 9781846551475

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2008

Synopsis

'I will not live among you,' says Abigail Buwell when she is taken from her life among the savages and returned, against her will, to 'civilisation' - the last military outpost on the frontier's hostile edge. Only Major Robert Cutter, the commander into whose hands she is delivered, hears her words.

Abigail views her new life as captivity. Alone and pregnant, she is watched over night and day by the beloved blue roan horse on which she rode back. In the fort around her, a lack of supplies, illness and intense isolation begin to wreak havoc on the minds and bodies of those stranded in this distant place.

Major Cutter, meanwhile, crushed by war and its aftermath, struggles to free himself of the doubts - and a boy - that haunt him. As Abigail's protest and the garrison's descent continue, it seems that his fate and that of his silent charge are increasingly bound together.

Set in the aftermath of the American Civil War but speaking as much of our times as of those, Blue Horse Dreaming is stark, haunting and told in exquisite prose.

About this title

Review:

'Remarkable and utterly original ... Time and again, Wallace finds the one right word to lift an otherwise ordinary sentence into art' (New York Times Book Review)

An exquisitely imagined novel of memory and desire, beautifully achieved, as tense as it is elegaic. This is a book that keeps faith with the landscape in which it is set, its vast spaces, great silences and strangeness. (Joseph O’connor Joseph O'Connor)

Book Description:

A visceral, stunningly-written novel set in the borderlands between civilisation and barbarity with all the power of Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1846551471
• ISBN 13: 9781846551475
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320