title: The Winter Family: A Novel
author:  Clifford Jackman 
description: <b><b>A<i>Globe &amp; Mail</i>Top 100 Book of 2015</b><br /><b>Longlisted for The 2015 Giller Prize<br />A Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Prize</b><br /><b><br />"Sadistic but mesmerizing..."</b><i><br /><b><i>-- The New York Times Book Review</i></b>w<br /></i></b><br /><br />"Clifford Jackman uses<b>the adventures of a gleefully nihilistic group of outlawsto tell the story of 'civilizations' implacable march westward.</b> The members of The Winter Family are the advanced guardthe thugs that more refined and powerful men send out to batter the world into submission. They burn Georgia for Sherman; they fix an election in Chicago for the young Republican Party; they clear Oklahoma of inconvenient natives for rapacious land barons. If Sam Peckinpah had been a novelist rather than a filmmaker, this is the book he wouldve written:<b>brutal, at times darkly funny, and utterly gripping from the first page to the last.</b><br /><b>--Scott Smith,<i>New York Times</i>bestselling author of <i>A Simple Plan</i> and <i>The Ruins<br /></i></b><br /><br />Clifford Jackman's novel somehow manages to be<b>both traditional and eerily unique</b>. Think of it as <b>a combination of<i>High Noon</i>and<i>The Shining</i>.</b><br /><b> -- Jeff Guinn, bestselling author of<i>Glorious</i>and<i>The Last Gun Fight</i></b><br /><br /> <br /> <i>The Winter Family</i>is <b>both calculating and poetic</b> and holds you with a compelling brutality from which<b> it is impossible to turn away</b>.<br /><b> -- Craig Johnson,<i>New York Times</i>bestsellingauthor of the Walt Longmire mysteries the basis of the hit drama series<i>Longmire</i></b><br /><br /> <br /> "<b>Brutal. Nihilistic. Extreme.</b>Clifford Jackman's debut,<i>The Winter Family</i>, lit my synapses up like a pinball machine. I joined golden-eyed Augustus Winter and his band of merry sociopaths on their journey through the dying West, civilization squeezing in from every anglethis is<b>a raw, blood-splattered picaresque</b> that I enjoyed immensely. <b>Jackman throws nine kinds of hell at you in this book,unloading with both barrels, and never lets up the intensity.</b>"<br /><b><b> --Craig Davidson, author ofCataract City</b><br /><br /><br /><b>A taut Western for those already missing the TV show Justified. </b>Westerns are enjoying some of their most substantial works in years and<b> Jackman's book has earned pre-release acclaim from all the industry gate keepers</b><br /><b> -- <i>Huffington Post</i>, A BookFilter Top Pick<br /></b><br /><br /></b>Four years ago I had the morbid delight of... reviewing Patrick DeWitts<i>The Sisters Brothers</i>[I] thought it would never be topped. Wrong! Into my life came Clifford Jackmans<i>The Winter Family</i>....This is<b>a high-octane novel</b>....<b>The kind of novel that you would expect from Sam Peckinpah or Quentin Tarantino, blood-drenched but allegorical.</b> It is a rampage around the American west through the eyes of a Canadian, which makes this one very special.<br /><b> --<i>Sun Times</i><br /></b><br /><br />"This noir Western is a violent rampage through the American West. Canadian author Jackman is<b> a deft hand</b> when describing the world, both physical and social, that the gang moves through...<b> Fans of Cormac McCarthys<i>Blood Meridian</i>and James Carlos Blakes<i>In the Rogue Blood</i>will appreciate this latest entry in the gritty Western genre.</b>"<br /><b>-- <i>Library Journal</i><br /></b><br /><br />If [<i>The Winter Family]</i> is any indication, the coming western boom is going to be good. <b>Bloody good</b>[Jackman] describes how societys rules might make us yearn for a less regimented time. But is that real freedom? <b>Jackman is the perfect guide for that kind of exploration</b>. Not only in terms of style  <b>tight, propulsive sentences, with just the right amount of poetry</b>  but also by training. As a practicing lawyer he knows a thing about lawlessness. Or maybe thats reading too much into his story. Better to read the story he wrote. <b>Its a good one. Violent, thrilling and beautiful</b>.<br /><b> -- <i>Sharp Magazine</i><br /></b><br /><br />"Jackmans novel is<b> a blood-soaked historical western covering over three decades of mayhem</b>, from the Civil War to 1900 Los Angeles. There are no good guys here, just killers, thieves, liars, crooks of every stripe, and piles of victimskilled in numerous ways <b>The strength of the story is Jackmans vivid portrayal of men who choose violence and lawlessness as their way of life, </b>and the justifications they create to rationalize their immoral behavior. <b>This is a chilling tale. "</b><br /><b><i>-- Publisher's Weekly</i></b><br /><br /><br /><b>"<b>Jackman writes well</b>, with great atmosphere<b>.</b>..The <b><b>hard realism and violence, combined with the evocative prose</b>,</b></b> <b>will intrigue readers of Cormac McCarthy and James Lee Burke</b>."<br /><b>-- <i>Booklist</i></b><br /><br /><br />"In Jackman's allegorical Western tale, Augustus Winter, with "the strength of will, the sense of purpose, radiating off him like heat," is<b> cut from the same bloody cloth as Blood Meridian's mysterious nihilist, Judge Holden</b> Add St. Augustine, Hobbes, scalp-hunting and, yes, waterboarding, and it's evident that the unrelenting violence is symbolic of Jackman's belief that "every society has at its core an animating myth, a guiding narrative, a shared lens through which to view the world"and here, it's persuasion by Spencer rifle. <b>Bloodletting as philosophical exercise, and not for the faint of heart."<br />-- <i>Kirkus Review</i></b><br /><br /><br />Jackmans <b>expansive</b> novel tries to explain how America changed between the Civil War and the end of the West. Although it is difficult to have any sympathy for the characters,<b> Jackman builds a great deal of sympathy for the human race, at once ignoble and sublime</b> If you are a fan of Cormac McCarthy and the new era of Western novel, you will enjoy <i>The Winter Family</i>.<br /> <b>-- <i>Muskogee Pheonix</i></b>
zlib_text: HIS FEISTY OMEGA
  A VALE VALLEY AUTUMN ROMANCE
  
  SKYLER SNOW
  
  CONTENTS
  1. Winston
  2. Kieran
  3. Winston
  4. Kieran
  5. Winston
  6. Kieran
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  12. Kieran
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  15. Winston
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