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The Outlander [electronic resource].

Adamson, Gil. (Author).

Summary:

In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand. Two vengeful brothers and a pack of bloodhounds track her across the western wilderness. She is nineteen years old and half mad. Gil Adamson's extraordinary novel opens in heart-pounding mid-flight and propels the reader through a gripping road trip with a twist -- the steely outlaw in this story is a grief-struck young woman. Along the way she encounters characters of all stripes -- unsavoury, wheedling, greedy, lascivious, self-reliant, and oc.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780887848889 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0887848885 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (401 p.)
  • Publisher: New York : House of Anansi Press, 2011.

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Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Widows > Fiction.
Women murderers > Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life > Canada > Fiction.
Canada > History > 1867-1914 > Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Frontier and pioneer life.
Widows.
Women murderers.
Canada.
Genre: Electronic books.
Fiction.
History.

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