Shavetail, Thomas Cobb
Shavetail, Thomas Cobb
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Shavetail

Author: Thomas Cobb

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 13 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/25/2011

Synopsis

Thomas Cobb's second novel is a "thoughtful Western" (Publishers Weekly) based on the actual events of the Camp Grant massacre. The year is 1871, and a 17-year-old runaway named Ned Thorne has just joined Captain Robert Franklin at the Camp Grant outpost located at the edge of Arizona's Chiricahua mountains. When a nearby farmhouse is raided and a woman kidnapped by renegade Apaches, the men's mettle is severely tested as they confront the brutality of life in the West.

About Thomas Cobb

Thomas Cobb is the author of Crazy Heart, which was adapted into a 2009 Academy Award-winning film starring Jeff Bridges, and Shavetail, among other books. He grew up in southern Arizona and now lives in Rhode Island with his wife.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

4 1/2 stars Really enjoyed this book. I can see how it wouldn't be for everyone. This book is compared by some, to Blood Meridian; another book that I loved. But I don't think this book has the same depth. The story is set in 1868 Arizona Territory. There are Indians, and army cavalry, and brutality......more

Goodreads review by D.

The Book: Part One Thomas Cobb’s Shavetail is an impressive, compulsively readable novel that begins with the protagonist, young Pvt. Ned Thorne arriving in something like purgatory at the ass end of the universe, at an Arizona Army post in 1871, and it as it progresses things get very much worse tha......more

Goodreads review by Tara

This one has been added to my all-time favorites list. First of Mr. Cobb's books that I have read, but about half way thru Shavetail I ordered more. These marvelous characters are vividly brought to life in exquisite detail; the dialogue is most impressive and laced with raw humour. I could not exp......more

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