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The Outlander | 
 enlarge | Author: Gil Adamson
Publisher: Ecco
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Rating:  15 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.5
ISBN: 006149125X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780061491252
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Product Description
In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, Mary Boulton has just become a widow—and her husband's killer. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is tormented by mad visions and by the knowledge that her two ruthless brothers-in-law are in pursuit, determined to avenge their younger brother's death. Responding to little more than the primitive fight for life, the widow retreats ever deeper into the wilderness—and into the wilds of her own mind—encountering an unforgettable cast of eccentrics along the way. With the stunning prose and captivating mood of great works like Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain or early Cormac McCarthy, Gil Adamson's intoxicating debut novel weds a brilliant literary style to the gripping tale of one woman's desperate escape.
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 Read Out Loud July 19, 2008
J. McClintock
After stopping several times to read aloud particularly powerful passages in Gil Adamson's "The Outlander," I suddenly recognized that every page had passages that I wanted to read aloud to others. Adamson's language is stunningly beautiful, and her details of ordinary and extraordinary life in the mountainous West of 1903, are sometimes totally surprising while perfectly natural. More particularly, I can't think of another work that so perfectly captures the looks and behaviors of horses. The characters are involving and the setting dramatic, but it is the glorious language that sets this novel above most others.
 I kept waiting for it to get better July 16, 2008
Karen Potts (Lake Jackson, Texas)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mary Boulton murdered her husband and is being pursued by his two brothers. That is the plot of this book in a nutshell. She suffers all sorts of hardships and deprivations and the story proceeds in an unrelenting and, to me, an uninteresting fashion. I was numb at the end of the book and wondered why I'd bothered to finish it. Bits and pieces of her past life were included throughout the novel, but there were still some unanswered questions about her past which I would like to have had answered. Many of the other reviewers enjoyed this book, but I kept waiting for it to get better and it never did!
Great Read July 5, 2008
Jodi S. Gradolph (Lebanon, OH USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was the most interesting book I've read so far this summer. I highly recommend it.
The Underwhelmed June 30, 2008
D. D. Burlin
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I polished off this book in about a day. Insubstantial, and at times grating with the number of references to the lead character as "the widow" when, in fact, the reader knows the character's name and the non-stop references to the moniker evoked neither sympathy for a "widow" nor loathing for a "black widow". I love a survivalist tale, just not this one. Way too many Deus ex Machina moments.
`Abundance lay about her but she starved' June 24, 2008
J. Cameron-Smith (ACT, Australia)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
In 1903, a newly widowed young woman of 19 is escaping the consequences of both the murder of her husband and the events surrounding it. Her brothers-in-law are intent on catching her to make her face justice. This sets the scene for a brutal journey through the cold western wilderness of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada. The widow (as she is generally referred to throughout the novel) carries with her the demons of her past and some of her recollections are not entirely reliable. The widow knows that there is no safe place for her within the confines of what passes for civilisation and so she flees across the Rocky Mountains.
There are a number of different themes in this novel and the setting itself is important. The environment is both beautiful and harsh. In order to survive, the widow needs to appreciate both and to adapt. Along her journey she meets some interesting characters, most of them outlanders in their own way, and learns how to survive. Can she find an enduring happiness?
At times the widow's mind is a confused and confusing space. It isn't always clear where reality begins and ends but this is integral to the story itself. This may not be an easy novel to read, but it is beautifully written and well worth the journey. I found myself reading slowly in order to appreciate the journey while simultaneously wanting to rush ahead to find out the ultimate destination.
This is Ms Adamson's first novel, and I'll certainly be looking to read more of her work.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
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