The Ploughmen: A Novel
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"Passionately arresting ... Zupans sentences are unleashed in a furious splendor.... bleak and brilliant-the best kind of book."-Minneapolis Star Tribune One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory ... A powerful and profoundly moving story about the heartbroken souls of women and men who are attempting to fashion significant lives in the grassy plains of Montana."-William Kittredge author of Hole in the Sky Steeped in the lonesome Montana country unyielding as it is beautiful The Ploughmen is the story of two men-an aging killer awaiting trial and a troubled young deputy-who sit across from each other in the dark talking through the bars of a county jail cell. John Gload is a killer so brutally adept at his craft that only now at the age of 77 has he faced a long-term jail sentence. Valentine Millimaki the low man in the Copper County sheriffs department is the unfortunate soul who draws the overnight shift after Gloads arrest. Soon though the conversations between Gload and Millimaki grow familiar and the troubled young sheriff finds himself seeking counsel from a man hes sworn to keep behind bars a man whose dark past shares something essential with his own. Zupan also a carpenter "writes with the precision of his trade" (The New York Times Book Review) and delivers a new classic of the American west.
