Liar's Moon: A Long Story Book

Philip Kimball is an authentic voice of the American west. With its mix of songs and laments, tall tales, history, and hearsay, Liar's Moon brings together the first-person stories of, among others, a young girl kidnapped by Indians in 1852, two toddlers who fell off a buckboard and were raised by coyotes, a pioneering black Mississippi sharecropper, and a young brave who believes he is invincible. Culminating in 1890 at Wounded Knee, Liar's Moon captures the quintessential American myth--the closing of the frontier--with uniquely American energy, diversity, and wit. Philip Caputo called Liar's Moon "an epic poem. If it fails to seize you from the first page on, then I suggest you've been watching too much television . . . Full of raw vitality and hopes of people seeking to slip the bonds of the past, of history itself.""Ambitious . . . Explores the horizon where the West of myth and the West of reality merge." --The New York Times Book Review"The true American mosaic . . . audacious, ambitious. It's as though the word-drunk Cormac McCarthy were teamed with the politically correct Louise Erdrich." --NewsdayRead More