Warlock [B1210]

2005 PB reprint of the 1958 original classic, in nice clean condition. PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST. Venture to the Wild West in this classic Western novel about a gun-slinging lawman who must restore peace to a silver mining boomtown. "A riveting Western that's also a work of literature."-NPR. "Among the finest of American novels." -Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity's Rainbow. Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction. "Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot: a never-never land where American virtues are embodied in the Earps, and the opposite evils in the Clanton gang; where the confrontation at the OK Corral takes on some of the dry purity of the Arthurian joust.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "As classic an American novel of the West as has ever been written. Somehow magically weaves a tale of the myths and legends of the place and its heroes and anti-heroes while at the same time dismantling those legends. I relished every word of it."; "What Griffith is to film, Oakley is to literature. The painful birth of a nation torn between a weak democracy and the safety of guns. A formidable western."; "Warlock is a beautifully written re-imagining of the Wyatt Earp tale, only here it's to deconstruct American Legend. Here we have a tale where violence begets more violence and no one is righteous."