The Winter Family, Clifford Jackman
The Winter Family, Clifford Jackman
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The Winter Family

Author: Clifford Jackman

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 12 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/14/2015

Synopsis

Tracing a group of ruthless outlaws from its genesis during the American Civil War all the way to a final bloody stand in the Oklahoma territories, The Winter Family is a hyperkinetic Western noir that reads like a full-on assault to the senses.Spanning the better part of three decades, The Winter Family traverses America's harsh, untamed terrain, both serving and opposing the fierce advance of civilization. Among its twisted specimens, the Winter Family includes the psychopathic killer Quentin Ross, the mean and moronic Empire brothers, the impassive ex-slave Fred Johnson, and the dangerous child prodigy Lukas Shakespeare. But at the malevolent center of this ultra-violent storm is their cold, hardened leader, Augustus Winter—a man with an almost pathological resistance to the rules of society and a preternatural gift for butchery.From their service as political thugs in a brutal Chicago election to their work as bounty hunters in the deserts of Arizona, there's a hypnotic logic to Winter's grim borderland morality that plays out, time and again, in ruthless carnage.With its haunting, hard-edged style, The Winter Family is a feverishly paced meditation on human nature and the dark contradictions of progress.

About Clifford Jackman

Clifford Jackman was born in Deep River, Ontario, and grew up in Ottawa. He studied English literature at York University and Queen’s University before attending Osgoode Hall Law School and being called to the bar in 2008. He lives in Guelph, Ontario, with his wife, Cathy, and his son, Anthony.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on July 12, 2018

The sparsely settled West was lawless and chaotic. Men dueled, drank, poached, grazed their cattle, and cut trees on the land of others. The sold whiskey to Indians, raped and whored. Banditry was endemic. Men took what they wanted and disappeared. wow. so, lots of people die in this book. and it's fu......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on February 08, 2015

*I received an ARC from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review* This is the kind of book that all other books should aspire to be. It is dark and gritty and full of emotional complexity. It is full of bad people who do terrible things and have terrible things done to them. It's......more

Goodreads review by Justin on May 04, 2015

This review was originally written for the Historical Novel Review. August Winter is the leader of a hardened band of killers, men he picked up during his service in the Union army and his banditry afterwards. Among them are psychopaths, rapists, an ex-slave, and a tortured Indian. These men terroriz......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on March 04, 2015

I picked up a copy of this book because the words "psychopathic killer" and "hyperkinetic Western noir" caught my attention. This book did not disappoint in the killing aspect. There were a lot of bodies piling up quickly as the story progressed. Yet, even with this factor, I did not find any of the......more

Goodreads review by Krista on September 14, 2015

The Winter Family opens like a hyperkinetic Tarantino-directed Western (there's even a German character for Christoph Waltz to sink his teeth into), with blood and gore and mayhem. The setting is 1889 Oklahoma and it's obvious that an era is drawing to a close: As Augustus Winter (leader of his epon......more

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