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THE PAINTED HORSES by Malcolm Brooks
PAINTED HORSES is a story of huge contrasts. Modern and historic, Good and evil. It is the well-written debut by a
writer who obviously loves his subject, the American West of the 1950s when the
opportunities for the intrepid soul were endless. Catherine Lemay is a young archeologist with recent experience on ancient history digs in England, who has taken a job in Montana, her assignment, to be certain nothing of historical value will be destroyed when a remote canyon is flooded in a major dam project. The job proves to be psychologically and physically harrowing while tempered by deep friendships and startling new love. But just as the untamed West was never a place where life unfolded in predictable experiences that resolved themselves in happyily-ever-after conclusions, PAINTED HORSES will delight and enchant you even as it shocks and enrages you. I give it five stars***** and look forward to the next offering from Malcomn Brooks.
writer who obviously loves his subject, the American West of the 1950s when the
opportunities for the intrepid soul were endless. Catherine Lemay is a young archeologist with recent experience on ancient history digs in England, who has taken a job in Montana, her assignment, to be certain nothing of historical value will be destroyed when a remote canyon is flooded in a major dam project. The job proves to be psychologically and physically harrowing while tempered by deep friendships and startling new love. But just as the untamed West was never a place where life unfolded in predictable experiences that resolved themselves in happyily-ever-after conclusions, PAINTED HORSES will delight and enchant you even as it shocks and enrages you. I give it five stars***** and look forward to the next offering from Malcomn Brooks.
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