Fourth of July Creek: A Novel
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In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions.
After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times.
But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the F.B.I., putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.
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Smith Henderson. (2014). Fourth of July Creek: A Novel. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Smith Henderson. 2014. Fourth of July Creek: A Novel. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Smith Henderson, Fourth of July Creek: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2014.
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After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times.
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"First novels don't come much more confidently written or fully imagined than this." — New York Times
"This is a hell of a great book."- — Esquire
"Breathtaking...heartbreaking...Henderson's immersive, colorful style makes this scenic journey worthwhile. He's a curious kind of hard-boiled poet - part Raymond Chandler, part Denis Johnson." — Entertainment Weekly (Grade A)
"The best book I've read so far this year...Henderson choreographs these parts so masterfully that the novel is never less than wholly engaging... All week I was looking for opportunities to slip back into these pages and follow the trials of this rural social worker." — Washington Post
"...a masterful debut...we find ourselves rooting for these deeply human characters in the end." — The Oregonian (Portland)
"Fourth of July Creek is an extremely dark book, but Henderson's lyrical sentences lend an elegance-an importance-to the lives of his fictional children. By tenderly portraying horrible family secrets, Henderson is able to illuminate the richness and possibility in even the most painful lives." — Kirkus Reviews
"On a political level, Henderson skillfully presages the contemporary political environment in his portrayal of the America of three decades ago. On a deeper level, this dark, compassionate novel finds in Jeremiah's-and Pete's-pain a mirror of everyone's. This is a significant debut." — Library Journal
"Born and raised in Montana, author Smith Henderson knows the terrain and its people, crafting a profoundly American tale that explores our love for freedom, our individualism and the price people sometimes pay." — AARP
"[A] remarkable first novel..." — Shelf Awareness
"This book left me awestruck; a stunning debut which reads like the work of a writer at the height of his power...Fourth of July Creek is a masterful achievement and Smith Henderson is certain to end up a household name." — Philipp Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of The Son
"Fourth of July Creek knocked me flat. This gorgeous, full-bodied novel seems to contain all of America at what was, in retrospect, a pivotal moment in its history...Smith Henderson has delivered nothing less than a masterpiece of a novel." — Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
"Fourth of July Creek cannot possibly be Smith Henderson's first book. Its scope is audacious, its range virtuosic, its gaze steady and true. A riveting story written in a seductive and relentlessly authentic rural American vernacular, this is the kind of novel I wish I'd written." — Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn
"Fourth of July Creek is an astonishing read. The writing is energetic and precise. Henderson has a mastery of scale that allows this particular place and these particular people to illuminate who we are as Americans...I could not recommend this book more highly." — Kevin Powers, bestselling author of The Yellow Birds
"Tremendously satisfying—think Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone...or Jimmy McNulty...set...in...another kind of violent American wilderness...[a] mesmerizing accomplishment. I cannot think of a finer first novel; it's hard, in fact, to think of a finer second, third, or fourth one, either." — Antonya Nelson
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