{"product_id":"the-ploughmen-a-novel-9781250074782","title":"The Ploughmen: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648129818677,"sku":"ByrdShop_1250074789","price":70.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781250074782.jpg?v=1781710400","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-ploughmen-a-novel-9781250074782","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}