Ridgerunner

ISBN: 1487009038

Author: Adamson, Gil

Condition: Used

Writers Trust Fiction Prize WinnerScotiabank Giller Prize FinalistPart literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers Trust Fiction Prize winner Ridgerunner is now available as a paperback.November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his sons future.Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton has been left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun who keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old house. Though he knows his father is coming for him, the boy longs to return to his familys cabin, deep in the woods. When Jack finally breaks free, he takes with him something the nun is determined to get back - at any cost.Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly changing landscape in the West, Gil Adamsons follow-up to her award-winning debut, The Outlander, is a vivid historical novel that draws from the epic tradition and a literary Western brimming with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss, and steeped in the wild of the natural world.