Nicholas Evans. (2010). The Brave: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company.

Nicholas Evans. 2010. The Brave: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company.

Nicholas Evans, The Brave: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

Nicholas Evans. The Brave: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

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   • bioText: Nicholas Evans studied at Oxford University and worked as a newspaper reporter, TV producer and screenwriter before writing four bestselling novels. His first book, the #1 New York Times bestseller The Horse Whisperer was made into a movie directed by Robert Redford. He lives in Devon with his wife, singer/songwriter Charlotte Gordon Cumming.
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There's little love in eight-year-old Tom Bedford's life. His parents are old and remote and the boarding school they've sent him to bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. The only comfort he gets is from his fantasy world of Cowboys and Indians. But when his sister Diane, a rising star of stage and screen, falls in love with one of his idols, the suave TV cowboy Ray Montane, Tom's life is transformed. They move to Hollywood and all his dreams seem to have come true. Soon, however, the sinister side of Tinseltown casts its shadow and a shocking act of violence changes their lives forever.
What happened all those years ago remains a secret that corrodes Tom's life and wrecks his marriage. Only when his estranged son, a US Marine, is charged with murder do the events resurface, forcing him to confront his demons. As he struggles to save his son's life, he will learn the true meaning of bravery.
Powerfully written and intensely moving, The Brave traces the legacy of violence behind the myth of the American West and explores our quest for love and identity, the fallibility of heroes and the devastating effects of family secrets.

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     July 5, 2010
     As a student at the Ashlawn Preparatory School in 1959 England, eight-year-old, cowboy-crazy Tommy Bedford, the hero of Evans's latest outdoor soap opera, is teased for being a bed wetter and gets the shock of his young life when he learns that his sister, glamorous "Next Big Thing" actress Diane Reed, is really his mother. Soon afterwards, she and Tommy move to L.A., where Diane falls for TV cowboy Ray Montane, and their tortured relationship leads to a horrifying act of violence that has lifelong repercussions for Tommy. In a parallel, present-day plot, 50-ish Tom, now a writer and documentary filmmaker who specializes in the American West, lives in Montana, is divorced and estranged from his adult son, Danny, who has been accused of committing an atrocity while serving in Iraq, for which he will be tried in a military court. Alternating past and present, Evans expertly juggles his twin narratives until they come shatteringly together as father and son yield to the combined weight of the secrets they hide. Combining elements of the prep school drama, the Hollywood novel, the western, and the war story, Evans (The Horse Whisperer) skillfully mixes genres to create a real crowd-pleaser.

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     August 15, 2010
     The latest from Evans (The Divided, 2005, etc.), author of the blockbuster The Horse Whisperer (1995), ranges from a 1950s British boarding school to early-'60s Hollywood gossip to contemporary war crimes in Iraq.

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     The author of the best-selling Horse Whisperer brings us the tale of Tom Bedford, from his childhood in an English boarding school to Hollywood with his movie-star mother and now to Montana, where he lives alone after a failed marriage. The news of the arrest of his son, a Marine stationed in Iraq, for war crimes brings up painful memories of Tom's past and a shocking secret he has never told anyone. The story alternates between scenes of Tom's turbulent childhood, as he struggles to understand the hidden depths of events around him, and the present, as he attempts to reconnect with his estranged son and atone for the sins of the past. VERDICT In his first novel in five years Evans displays a sure hand at drawing characters and their motivations and settings as diverse as a gloomy boarding school, glamorous Hollywood, and the wide-open spaces of the West. This should appeal to all lovers of good storytelling.--Dan Forrest, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green

     Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Its complicated doesnt come close to describing Tom Bedfords family history. As a child in 1950s England, Tom worships two things: American TV westerns and his sophisticated sister, Diane, a promising young actress. His parents, though, are another matter. Cold, distant, and old, they selfishly banish Tom to Dickensian boarding schools. When Diane lands a screen test that will catapult her from the London stage to a Hollywood movie set, she first springs Tom from school and then informs him that those people are actually his grandparents. She, not the alcoholic shrew who raised him, is his real mother. And the news keeps getting better: his new dad will be none other than rugged TV cowboy Ray Montane. But life in Tinseltown turns dark when Ray begins mercilessly beating Diane. Reflecting on his life once he becomes a divorced father with a failed relationship with his only son, a marine serving in Iraq who is accused of heinous war crimes, Tom must reconcile his past. Ever the master of intense and complex relationships, Evans has crafted a time-traveling plot that admirably juggles issues of identity and fidelity to ones self and ones principles.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)

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     August 15, 2010
     The latest from Evans (The Divided, 2005, etc.), author of the blockbuster The Horse Whisperer (1995), ranges from a 1950s British boarding school to early-'60s Hollywood gossip to contemporary war crimes in Iraq.As 1960 approaches at Ashlawn Preparatory, lonely Tommy Bedford, not yet ten,�is a mostly�inconspicuous boy teased for being a bedwetter. He feels exiled from home and especially from his beautiful, vivacious sister, a starlet who's just moved�to Los Angeles to seek fame in film; his�chief solace is an obsession with bold cowboy heroes,�among them�a small-screen gunslinger named Red McGraw. Tommy's sister shows up on the redbrick campus in a stretch limo one day, squired�by Ray Montane, the�actor who plays Red. Soon after, Diane divulges a shocking secret-Tommy is not her brother but her son, conceived when she was a teen, and his�aged parents are really grandparents-and she and Ray whisk�Tommy to Hollywood to live with them. Inevitably, the sunny fantasy curdles, and Ray turns out not to be quite the�square-jawed scourge of�injustice he plays on television. Eventually, his poisonous jealousy results in an act�of violence that, we learn in the book's opening scene, ends�(not quite plausibly) with�Diane being executed.� Four decades later,�ex-alcoholic Tom Bedford lives alone in Montana, soldiering on amid the wreckage of a marriage and a once-promising writing career.�But when his estranged son, Danny,�who enlisted in the�Marines over Tom's objections, is charged with murder after a civilian massacre in Iraq, Tom-trying both to reconnect to his boy and to save him from conviction-is forced to�acknowledge, and to�do something about�the toxic residue of, the secret he'd thought buried.�Evans has put together a slick,�well-constructed entertainment, but it often succumbs to cliche' and grimly dogpaddles�in the mainstream, never taking a risk.

     The novel is brisk-paced and crowd-pleasing, but hardly brave.

     (COPYRIGHT (2010) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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