Bloody Season - Softcover

Estelman, Loren D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553274945 ISBN 13: 9780553274943

Publisher: Bantam, 1989

Synopsis

The story of the events leading up to the encounters at the O.K. Corral, relating that event and the events after

About this title

From AudioFile:

A veteran of over 75 audiobook productions, Norman Dietz reads this realistic, myth-busting Western with dramatic flair. He sounds like an Old West cowboy character; his voice is gravelly and terse. He makes the story so real one can smell the blood and sweat. It's 1881 in the Arizona Territory. The historic gunfight at the O.K. Corral has occurred, and the Earps and Doc Holliday have been arrested. The story includes negotiations with the sheriff, Doc Holliday's beating of Big Nose Kate, and Wyatt Earp's assignation with a prostitute. Dietz struggles with the female voices, but this account of the ultimate Western adventure is top-notch. S.C.A. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

From Publishers Weekly:

Winner of three Golden Spur Awards, Estleman here tells of the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1881 Tombstone, Ariz., but the novel is a curious mixture of impressionism and straight history. Most readers won't be able to sort out the dozens of characters until close to the end, which is a pity because Estleman, master of the hardboiled western (and mystery) story, has a terrific way of grabbing our attentionthe first sentence is a shockerand keeping us turning pages. The plot concerns the political and financial wranglings that ensued after the famous shoot-out (which was not in the O.K. Corral), an event that not only made Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers notorious but made them targets as well. Estleman displays solid historical knowledge and his usual deft writing. The charactersespecially Holliday, an alcoholic, tubercular woman-beater, and Wyatt Earp, a dandified womanizer interested mainly in moneyspring indelibly to life. The feel, sights and smellsof 1881 Tombstone are beautifully etched in this flawed but compulsively readable gem.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0553274945
• ISBN 13: 9780553274943
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback