Far as the Eye Can See: A Novel

✍ Scribed by Robert Bausch

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Year: 2014;2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 199 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1620402610

✦ Synopsis

Bobby Hale is a Union veteran several times over. After the war, he sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. As he stumbles around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the people he meets-settlers and native people-and the violent history he both participates in and witnesses. Far as the Eye Can See is the story of life in a place where every minute is an engagement in a kind of war of survival, and how two people-a white man and a mixed-race woman-in the midst of such majesty and violence can manage to find a pathway to their own humanity.

Robert Bausch is the distinguished author of a body of work that is lively and varied, but linked by a thoughtfully complicated masculinity and an uncommon empathy. The unique voice of Bobby Hale manages to evoke both Cormac McCarthy and Mark Twain, guiding readers into Indian country and the Plains Wars in a manner both historically true and contemporarily relevant, as thoughts of race and war occupy the national psyche.

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Review

An epic and unpredictable journey across the old American West * Lance Weller, author of *Wilderness * Great contemporary Western novels are thin on the ground by Robert Bausch's Far As The Eye Can See feels like an instant classic ... It's a morally complex story of redemption and a reminder that life is never as simple as you'd like it to be. And, by kings, the central love story is a really doozy * Metro * An ambitious and intelligent modern Western that's concerned far more with the human soul than genre tropes * Glasgow Herald* *

About the Author

Robert Bausch is the author of seven novels and one collection of short stories. They include Almighty Me (optioned for film and eventually adapted as Bruce Almighty), A Hole in the Earth (a New York Times Notable and Washington Post Favourite Book of the Year) and Out of Season (also a Washington Post Favourite). He was born in Georgia and is Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College. In 2005, he won the Fellowship of Southern Writers' Hillsdale Award for Fiction for his body of work. In 2009, he was awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, also for sustained achievement. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Virginia. www.robertbausch.org

✦ Subjects

A Novel