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Great Glorious Goddamn of It All by Josh Ritter (2021, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarlequin Enterprises Ulc
ISBN-101335522530
ISBN-139781335522535
eBay Product ID (ePID)22050090225
Product Key Features
Book TitleGreat Glorious Goddamn of It All
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSmall Town & Rural, Coming of Age, Literary, Historical
Publication Year2021
GenreFiction
AuthorJosh Ritter
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12.2 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2022-289841
Reviews"I loved this mythic American story. My heart overflowed with affection and raced with terror for Weldon Applegate! Josh Ritter's lyrical imagination frolics unfettered on page after fast-turning page." --Anaïs Mitchell, creator of Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown "Ritter's follow-up to Bright's Passage (2011) is a scenic, phrase-spinning account that delights in detailing the perilous life of a lumberjack... like the song without an ending that one character after another can't get out of their head, the novel has its own infectious quality." -Kirkus Reviews "Sweeping and magic-filled... Ritter lyrically evokes a town fused to the logging industry by necessity and devotion through Weldon's anecdotal narration, which resonates with a shimmery, deep-seated humanity. Ritter scores another hit." -Publishers Weekly "The language of Ritter's characters is poetic, born of generations of storytelling, myth, and tradition...A story at once heart-wrenching, lifeaffirming, and tear-inducing that still somehow offers the most loathsome villain this side of Cormac McCarthy. Ritter, widely regarded as one of our greatest songwriters, brings that same knack for lyrical precision to his memorable yet completely natural fiction. Depth and humor are woven into richly textured sentences and evocative turns of phrase that seem to announce a new world between each word. There is wisdom on these pages." -Booklist, starred review "Following his debut, Bright's Passage, singer-songwriter Ritter displays his storytelling gifts in a rollicking narrative featuring tall tales, outrageous characters, and hair-raising adventure in the waning days of Idaho lumberjacks. A deeply genuine must-read story." -Library Journal, STARRED review, "I loved this mythic American story. My heart overflowed with affection and raced with terror for Weldon Applegate! Josh Ritter's lyrical imagination frolics unfettered on page after fast-turning page." --Anaïs Mitchell, author of Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown
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SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER From singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, a lyrical, sweeping novel about a young boy's coming-of-age during the last days of the lumberjacks. In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, ninety-nine year old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory, filled with tall tales writ large with murder, mayhem, avalanches and bootlegging. It's the story of dark pine forests brewing with ancient magic, and Weldon's struggle as a boy to keep his father's inherited timber claim, the Lost Lot, from the ravenous clutches of Linden Laughlin. Ever since young Weldon stepped foot in the deep Cordelia woods as a child, he dreamed of joining the rowdy ranks of his ancestors in their epic axe-swinging adventures. Local legend says their family line boasts some of the greatest lumberjacks to ever roam the American West, but at the beginning of the twentieth century, the jacks are dying out, and it's up to Weldon to defend his family legacy. Braided with haunting saloon tunes and just the right dose of magic, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All is a novel bursting with heart, humor and an utterly transporting adventure that is sure to sweep you away into the beauty of the tall snowy mountain timber.
LC Classification NumberPS3618.I785G74 2021b
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