Kim Zupan. (2014). The Ploughmen: A Novel. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Kim Zupan. 2014. The Ploughmen: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing.

Kim Zupan, The Ploughmen: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing, 2014.

Kim Zupan. The Ploughmen: A Novel. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2014.

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     Kim J. Zupan, a native Montanan, lives in Missoula and grew up in and around Great Falls, where much of The Ploughmen is set. For twenty-five years Zupan made a living as a carpenter while pursuing his writing. He has also worked as a smelterman, pro rodeo bareback rider, ranch hand, Alaska salmon fisherman, and presently teaches carpentry at Missoula College. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana.

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A young sheriff and a hardened killer form an uneasy and complicated bond in this mesmerizing first novel set on the plains of Montana.

Steeped in a lonesome Montana landscape as unyielding and raw as it is beautiful, Kim Zupan's The Ploughmen is a new classic in the literature of the American West.

At the center of this searing fever-dream of a novel are two men—a killer awaiting trial and a troubled young deputy—sitting across from each other in the dark, talking through the bars of a county jail cell: John Gload, so brutally adept at his craft that only now, at the age of seventy-seven, has he faced the prospect of long-term incarceration; and Valentine Millimaki, low man in the Copper County sheriff's department, who draws the overnight shift after Gload's arrest. With a disintegrating marriage further collapsing under the strain of his night duty, Millimaki finds himself seeking counsel from a man whose troubled past shares something essential with his own. Their uneasy friendship takes a startling turn with a brazen act of violence that yokes together the two haunted souls by the secrets they share—and by the rugged country that keeps them.

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   • content: "Kim Zupan's The Ploughmen is one of the finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory, a book that stands alongside Richard Ford's Rock Springs, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, James Welch's Fools Crow...Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy at his best."
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   • content: Jim Meskimen gives a stellar performance in narrating this audiobook gem. This somewhat stream-of-consciousness novel concerns young Montana deputy sheriff Valentine Millimaki and his interactions with career hit man John Gload, who has finally been arrested. Meskimen's versatile baritone has a gravelly quality that matches the vast Montana landscapes described by the author and the story's dark subject matter. His performance of the narrative sections is clear, with his tempo adding to the impact of each word. Each character has a unique and credible voice that is consistent throughout the performance. The discussions between Millimaki and Gload on life, death, and their attachment to the land are a splendid match of voice and text. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

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A young sheriff and a hardened killer form an uneasy and complicated bond in this mesmerizing first novel set on the plains of Montana.

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