In Black Angus, Newton Thornburg continues
to explore the American scene with the same
masterful style that critics acclaimed in To Die in
California and Cutter and Bone. ("Shows how
much can be done within a classic form by a writer
who knows his business The best novel of its
kind in ten years." -- The New York Times.)
Powerfully and beautifully written, Black Angus
tells the story of Robert Blanchard, a man who
leaves his cushy job in the city to create a new and
more meaningful life for himself and his family
raising cattle on a ranch in the Ozarks. But from
the beginning, like so many other American
dreams, this one goes bad. Cattle prices fall.
Blanchard s herd is quarantined. His son devel-
ops asthma. His wife cannot adjust to country
living and longs to return to the city. And
Blanchard s retarded brother, Tommy, a thirty-
four-year-old bearded child who plays through the
teeming days -- even he senses that things are
not as they once were.
Into this unhappy group breezes another fugi-
tive from the city, Blanchard s old friend Shea, the
"wizard of wind," an ex-advertising copywriter big
enough to be a pro-football lineman but a pixie in
his own mind, fun-loving and funny, alcoholic and
violent by turns. Wanted by the police on charges
of assault and nonsupport, he becomes for
Blanchard the wrong man at the wrong time, the
catalyst that sets him on a desperate course to
save the ranch -- by rustling his own cattle.
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