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Title details for Hard Country by Michael McGarrity - Available

Hard Country

Kerney Family Series, Book 1

#1 in series

by Michael McGarrity
George Guidall
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National best-selling author and New Mexico native Michael McGarrity takes listeners to the wild territory of the late 19th-century American Southwest for this epic tale. After the deaths of his wife and brother, John Kerney gives up his West Texas ranch and heads south in search of a new home. Soon Kerney is offered work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory-a job that will forever change his life.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Kerney Family Trilogy

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 10, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781464041143
      • File size: 457887 KB
      • Duration: 15:53:55

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This Western saga is aptly titled--the territory of New Mexico, its way of life, and its people were hard indeed. George Guidall's excellent storytelling skills take the listener from 1875-1918, following the Kerney family through three generations of hardship, war, tragedy, and triumph. The fast-moving plot has more action than conversation. Still, it's Guidall's character voices that bring the story to life. He perfectly portrays stubborn cowboys, evil villains, young boys, and scrappy women. His tone remains just detached enough to help soften the blows of the endless stream of tragedies. The untimely death of nearly every character will soon have the listener feeling as hardened as the country itself. M.M.G. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 5, 2012
      This sprawling western saga shakes trail dust through three generations of New Mexico ranchers carving out a place in the Tularosa Basin at the end of the frontier era. McGarrity, a former Santa Fe deputy sheriff and author of the long-running Kevin Kerney mystery series, gives his police chief protagonist a familiar family backstory, sending Civil War veteran John Kerney to the New Mexico territory to establish a ranch in an era when work was tough, cowboys were tougher, and daily life was an uncertain proposition. McGarrity knows and loves the harsh landscape, but his characters are sparely drawn, and the emotionally stunted, suspicious, and compulsively misanthropic Patrick Kerney makes for a difficult protagonist to carry the family saga element of this expansive novel. Insights are spelled out, rather than shown. “The forsaken, lost little boy who lived inside of Patrick made him who he was, but that didn’t give him the right to bully her,” and the frequent cowboy talk is laid on too thickly. But fans of McGarrity’s modern police procedurals will appreciate his chronicle of a time and place that he obviously cares for.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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