{"product_id":"the-ploughmen-a-novel","title":"The Ploughmen: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn NPR Best Book of 2014 A Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection A \"bleak and brilliant\" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) debut novel  \"one of the finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory  a book that stands alongside Richard Fords Rock Springs  Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping  James Welchs Fools Crow.\" (William Kittredge) Steeped in a lonesome Montana landscape as unyielding and raw as it is beautiful  Kim Zupans The Ploughmen is a new classic in the literature of the American West. At the center of this searing  fever dream of a novel are two mena killer awaiting trial  and a troubled young deputysitting across from each other in the dark  talking through the bars of a county jail cell: John Gload  so brutally adept at his craft that only now  at the age of 77  has he faced the prospect of long-term incarceration and Valentine Millimaki  low man in the Copper County sheriffs department  who draws the overnight shift after Gloads arrest. With a disintegrating marriage further collapsing under the strain of his night duty  Millimaki finds himself seeking counsel from a man whose troubled past shares something essential with his own. Their uneasy friendship takes a startling turn with a brazen act of violence that yokes together two haunted souls by the secrets they share  and by the rugged country that keeps them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946809356341,"sku":"ByrdShop_0805099514","price":26.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805099515.jpg?v=1769967273","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-ploughmen-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}