Haints Stay

Haints Stay by Winnette, Colin. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781937512323.

Colin Winnette makes use of the Western genre to stunning effect. --Los Angeles Times Brooke and Sugar are killers. Bird is the boy who mysteriously woke beside them while between towns. For miles, there is only desert and wilderness, and along the fringes, people. The story follows the middling bounty hunters after theyve been chased from town, and Bird, each in pursuit of their own sense of belonging and justice. It features gunfights, cannibalism, barroom piano, a transgender birth, a wagon train, a stampede, and the tenuous rise of the Wests first one-armed gunslinger. Haints Stay is a new Acid Western in the tradition of Rudolph Wurlitzer, Kelly Reichardts Meeks Cutoff, and Jim Jarmuschs Dead Man: meaning it is brutal, surreal, and possesses an unsettling humor. "In his astonishing portrait of American violence, Haints Stay, Colin Winnette makes use of the Western genre to stunning effect. But this isnt a chummy oater penned by the likes of Zane Grey or Louis LAmour. Winnettes frontier feels more Homeric. His knack for tapping into scenes of primal fear and poetic violence serves as an indictment of our species base nature and worst instincts. While the novel flouts most of the conventions of the traditional horse opera, the rewards of Haints Stay belong to the reader." --Los Angeles Times